Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:38:48 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improved searching for FreeBSD.org web site Message-ID: <20020827073848.GB65406@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <3D663073.40604@centtech.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020822220010.00ab2540@pop.atomz.com> <20020823073410.B39333@blackhelicopters.org> <3D663073.40604@centtech.com>
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--f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eric, On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:54:11AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Actually, I guess I'm a little bitter by this. I spent a lot of time in= =20 > the recent past working on a search engine replacement for FreeBSD.org, a= nd=20 > even asked for comments and suggestions on this list=20 > (http://www.sprawler.com for beta testing). I also repeatedly asked how = I=20 > can get it in a "test mode" kind of set up to see how well people enjoy i= t,=20 > with NO RESPONSES. I could've sworn I'd sent you a 'excellent work' e-mail. If not, excellent work. My gripes are: 1. I'd like to limit the language of documents that are searched. I don't need to see the German or French documents, for example. 2. When we use this to search the mailing list archives, we're going to need a way to search by date range, and to order the results by date (and quite possibly by mailing list as well). 3. Links don't work properly in 'found' documents. If a search returns a match to a page that's part of the Handbook (say) then the 'Next' and 'Prev' links that form part of the Handbook navigation don't work when you're looking at the page. 4. In the 'Results' page, it's not clear what's a link and what=20 isn't, because of the colours used. The only thing that looks like a link is the 'HIGHLIGHTED' text. I had to scrub the mouse over the page titles to see that they were links as well. I'll send you a separate e-mail to talk about getting this in to test mode on the FreeBSD site. --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1rLIcACgkQk6gHZCw343WUYgCfRgBwq/XPdBtqYId/lVPwUz94 inAAnR323S9W08+lhqb5tNJiAjV9sy5B =Lf+R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f2QGlHpHGjS2mn6Y-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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