Re: [Phpwiki-talk] 1.3.x series

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Aredridel wrote:

> > I think there are some obvious things to drop, like:
> > 
> > references (that is, [1] [2] links)
> 
> By all means. Let's drop it. Perhaps put footnotes code in instead of
> references (ala NBTSCWiki)?

I like the footnotes feature; it makes sense vs. the references. Let's add
it.

> > Third, I still long for a better search interface than what we have now
> > (which doesn't work too bad, but could be better).
> 
> ooh, yeah... what can we work up, here? I'd like to use regexps, but I'm a
> regexp nut. There's also SQL-like wildcards (% and _) and globs (*, ?, {x,y}
> and [a-q]) that'd be nice as syntax, as well as altavista like boolean ops--
> +foo -bar or standard boolean (and/or/xor/not)

I have to revisit Neilson's "Designing Web Usability." He has a whole
chapter on search interfaces and it has a lot of good practical ideas. In
general, there should be a simple search and an advanced search, so we can
go crazy with the advanced features.

> > Any navigational aids we can contrive would help, like SiteMap, or
> > HotLinks or whatever.
> 
> Mmm, and I'd love to see 'em as modules, enablable by adding the block to a
> template or uncommenting something or setting a config variable. I still
> don't like templates that much (which is why I like PHP so much), but it
> makes a lot of sense in many ways.

Excellent idea... I think this is now the case anyways with Arno's rewrite
of transform.php.

~swain

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