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DL8 USERS
MANUAL EM-7691-B Rev.24
16. USER DEFINED BROWSER VIEW (TYPE D & E)
16.1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This section provides supplementary information for creating user defined browser views, focused on relationships be-
tween the DL8’s I/O data and web data files (.js, .json).
16.1.1 POINTS OF CAUTION
The user defined browser view function is provided for users who have technical knowledge and skill to program web files
using HTML, JavaScript, or other programming languages. HTML editor and other tools must be ready by the users, not
provided by M-System. Please be aware that M-System does not extend customer support to basic questions regarding
web site programming.
The DL8 is only capable of basic web server function for file I/O handling, NOT capable of running programs such as CGI
or Script, provided from the server side.
A user defined browser view imported to the device cannot be retrieved. Please have a copy of it separately on a PC.
16.2 PROCEDURE FOR CREATING AND TRANSFERRING BROWSER VIEW DATA
16.2.1 STEP 1: CREATING A FOLDER
A user defined browser view is created on a Windows PC.
First, create a file folder.
NOTE
• Be sure not to have any subfolder in the created file folder.
• File name length must be within 24 characters including its file name extension.
• Max. 1024 files can be saved in the file folder.
• Max. size per file is limited to 1 MB.
• The total file size in the folder is limited to 4 MB.
16.2.2 STEP 2: CREATING HTML FILES
Describe user’s browser views using HTML, JavaScript, CSS and other languages and save in the folder created in STEP
1.
Here is a simple example of HTML file. Write texts as shown below using a text editor tool and save it as “sample.html.”
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8”>
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=”#80ffff”>
<p>TEST</p>
</body>
</html>
