[DAS] Dalliance: a new genome DAS client

[Leyla Garcia]

About CORS,

 >If you run your own DAS servers and
 >don't list them in the registry, you'll need to check for CORS 
compatibility
 >yourself.  The latest versions of Proserver and Dazzle should both be 
okay.

If I am not mistaken, Proserver already implements CORS headers?
Andy, could you please send me a link of a Proserver server that 
implements this?

Thanks,

Leyla

On 03/08/2010 21:52, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> This is very cool - I had a look the other day. Was wondering why some 
> sources could be attached and some can't....
> Best browser experience yet by far I'd say.
>
> No problems about adding CORS support - for the record I'm very happy 
> to implement new capabilities testing and other suggestions to the 
> registry from anyone who cares to drop me a line. Especially if it's 
> going to enhance and promote the use of the registry :)
>
>
> On 3 Aug 2010, at 20:41, Thomas Down wrote:
>
>> As some of you already know, I've been experimenting recently with a
>> web-based DAS client for genomic data.  It's still in
>> a unashamedly prototypical state (in particular, some of the popups and
>> configuration stuff is outright clunky, and we know it!), but we're 
>> starting
>> to find it quite useful, and would be interested to receive more 
>> feedback.
>> So if you're curious, you can try it here:
>>
>>               http://www.biodalliance.org/human/ncbi36/
>>
>> It's a fully-fledged DAS/1.53 client (with a few bits of DAS/1.6, and
>> hopefully rather more coming soon), but has one major caveat: since it's
>> pure Javascript code running in your web browser, there are 
>> limitations to
>> which servers it can connect to.  Specifically, it will only work 
>> with DAS
>> servers that implement the W3C cross-origin resource sharing model 
>> (which
>> has been discussed on this list before, but drop me a line if you've 
>> got any
>> questions).  What does this mean in practice?  If you're adding 
>> datasources
>> from the registry, things are simple because Dalliance will only 
>> allow you
>> to add CORS-enabled sources (a huge thanks to Jonathan Warren for adding
>> some support for this in the registry).  If you run your own DAS 
>> servers and
>> don't list them in the registry, you'll need to check for CORS 
>> compatibility
>> yourself.  The latest versions of Proserver and Dazzle should both be 
>> okay.
>>
>> All comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome!
>>
>>                   Thomas Down.
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