Status of this project?

[edtjones]

Hi folks,

I'm currently investigating IIIF rendering options, and really like the proposition that Canvas Panel sits between OSD / Leaflet / OpenLayers etc at the 'build it yourself' end of the scale, and Mirador et al at the other.

What's the status of this project? Are you actively developing it? I can see you did a release last year to NPM as canvas-panel-beta, but there aren't many commits recently other than maintenance version bumps. I assume you're using this in production - what are your views on other projects adopting it? Or is this more of a testbed for IIIF ideas, and not really 'production ready'?

Thanks

Ed

[tomcrane]

Hi Ed,

We haven't been actively developing it recently but will very soon be starting on an effort to make just the kind of component/toolkit you describe. This will start by documenting development scenarios... "as a developer, what's the shape of the component or library I need here to make this complex thing easy?"

We aim to have something ready by the end of Summer. We'll document the use cases (or developer-stories) and invite contributions. For now, if you do have a developer story you could share, we'd be glad to hear it.
We've added a label developer-story to these issues for this purpose.

See also https://canvas-panel.digirati.com/developer-stories/, although that thinking is maybe quite out of date. These are the kinds of API/library usage interactions we want to understand... what do you want to be in control of and what do you want to forget about...?

Tom