Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:17:58 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improved searching for FreeBSD.org web site Message-ID: <3D6BDE76.7020900@centtech.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020822220010.00ab2540@pop.atomz.com> <20020823073410.B39333@blackhelicopters.org> <3D663073.40604@centtech.com> <20020827073848.GB65406@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > 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. I've started working on this problem, and I think I have a few ways to limit the confusion. > 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). I'm also working on a separate indexer / searcher (same "technology", just different code) to index the mailing lists, and it will have all the features you list above. > 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. I'll check into this.. thanks.. > 4. In the 'Results' page, it's not clear what's a link and what > 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. So using blue for links is preferred? That's an easy fix. I was just trying to use the "FreeBSD colors". :) > I'll send you a separate e-mail to talk about getting this in to test > mode on the FreeBSD site. Sure.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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