From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Aug 27 13:18: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF2B37B405; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A941543E6A; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7RKI1Y11531; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:18:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g7RKI1D26025; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:18:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7RKHwo26011; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:17:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D6BDE76.7020900@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:17:58 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: Michael Lucas , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improved searching for FreeBSD.org web site 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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