From: Steve W. <sw...@wc...> - 2001-02-06 19:19:56
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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 ...............................ooo0000ooo................................. Hear FM quality freeform radio through the Internet: http://wcsb.org/ home page: www.wcsb.org/~swain |