INQUEST digital archive - showcase for 40th anniversary

[millipedia]

This one's been a long time coming, but this week we launched a site for the UK charity INQUEST who provide support for families involved in state related deaths.

This was part of their 40th Anniversary and the site showcases significant milestones and events from their archive over the last 40 years. There's an interactive timeline, case studies and oral histories. Even given the difficult subject matter we're really pleased with the result:

 

Behind the scenes, the modules we used were mostly the usual suspects, Tracy Debugger, ProCache etc. Also RockFrontend specifically for the ajax routing (would love that as a separate module @bernhard ) which we used with HMTX in various places. Not sure we really needed to use HTMX on this one but hey, it is very handy.

One module we made use of which we hadn't used before was @Richard Jedlička's PDF fieldtype so that we could generate thumbnails of PDF documents. There are a lot of historical documents on the site and having the thumbnails generated automatically was really handy.

The site seems to have gone down really well. And we actually had a launch party - it's been years since that happened...

https://history.inquest.org.uk/

Oh, and it does very nicely in Lighthouse and gets A+ in Observatory as well 🙂

 

[bernhard]

  On 3/28/2025 at 12:46 PM, millipedia said:

Also RockFrontend specifically for the ajax routing (would love that as a separate module @bernhard ) which we used with HMTX in various places.

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Hey @millipedia congrats. I understand that but it's not as easy as it may sound. I'd either have to add RockFrontend as a dependency then or have several features duplicated across both modules that I need to support... Or I'd have to extract it to yet another module and add that as a dependency for both RockFrontend and RockAjaxWhatever... Neither option is better than having it in RockFrontend and working on making its footprint as small as possible so that even if you just use a fraction of what the module has to offer it will still be safe, stable and fast. Any help in that direction will happily be merged (but don't know of any performance penalties when using the module).

[millipedia]

@bernhard Absolutely no problem! I do really appreciate all the work you do already.

I did try building my own module to do the same kind of thing ... but it just wasn't as good as yours 🙂