Just Browsing
Recently, on the Koha list, one of the users asked about the possibility of adding a ‘browse’ feature to the detail of a given record. The idea is, you might want to see what books appear on the shelf before and after that item, in a given location and shelf. As it turns out, it was a fairly trivial exercise — I spent Sunday afternoon whipping up a basic browser degradable shelf browser, and Owen Leonard, Koha’s Interface Designer, made it look pretty :-).
Why degradable? Glad you asked. One of the goals of the Koha project from the beginning is that all of the interfaces are fully degradable and will work in any browser. So whenever we code a new feature, we write it for that environment first, then we slap on any additional functionality to make it prettier or more Ajaxy, etc.
Anyway … Here’s a basic screenshot of the display:
