Re: Getting searching to work
pflynn@curia.ucc.ie (Peter Flynn)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 10:06:37 GMT
From: pflynn@curia.ucc.ie (Peter Flynn)
Subject: Re: Getting searching to work
To: connolly@pixel.convex.com
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Message-id: <9301281006.AA16204@curia.ucc.ie>
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>This is supported functionality. See the user guide:
>http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Guide.html
Eeek. Thanks you. Perhaps this file should be called Guide.RTFM
>I just wanted to take the opportunity to point out once again
>that the <ISINDEX> strategy for marking up searchable documents
>is less than optimal.
This is not apparent to me (OK, it's early in the morning :-)
In what way is it suboptimal?
>Inline "search this anchor" elements are preferable, at least
>to me.
>
>This request shows that it's intuitive to at least one other person:
>he just made a guess and picked the inline searchable-anchors
>strategy:
Flattery like this will get you a long way :-)
By "search this anchor" do you mean "search from here onwards to EOF"
or are you implying that the file should be marked up as <a name=anchor>
lots and lots of text, megabytes even, to which the user might want to
restrict the search</a> ?
///Peter