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Re: Announcing new set database
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lugnet.admin.database
Date: 
Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:11:06 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
> Looks great!
> 
> One bug and one suggestion:
> 
> (1) The bug is that there is a missing range indicator
>     at the top of a listing, e.g. go to
>     http://guide.lugnet.com/set/
>     and follow the quick link to trains.
>     The first screen is OK --- it has
>     "First 20 of 224 Set Matches".  But then click on
>     the right arrow for the next page, and it shows
>     "21–40 of 224 Set Matches".  I guess there is supposed
>     to be a dash there between the 21 and 40.

Hmm.  I see an en-dash there (not a hyphen and not an em-dash but an en-dash).
That doesn't show up for you?  What browser/OS were you viewing with?

It's using entity – there, which is kind of a Microsoft-ism in character
set terms, but I had previously thought that all browsers honored it anyway,
and converted it to a hyphen if the en-dash wasn't available.  Hmm.


> (2) Suggestion:  Duplicate the left and right arrows
>     for going backward and forward at the bottom of the
>     page so that when a user scrolls down, there is an
>     arrow there, and one doesn't need to scroll back to
>     the top to go to the next page.

Ya, sorry about that.  We took it out last night because it was super-
confusing on short pages.  We'll put it back after trimming it down in a
way which works great but isn't confusing.

--Todd



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(...) I could have sworn that when I looked at the page source the first time, it was just "2140", but now when I look it is "21&#15040". Yes, it doesn't come out on Netscape 3.01 on Solaris (I know it's old, but our sysadmins always have "more (...) (26 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database)

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Looks great! One bug and one suggestion: (1) The bug is that there is a missing range indicator at the top of a listing, e.g. go to (URL) and follow the quick link to trains. The first screen is OK --- it has "First 20 of 224 Set Matches". But then (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database)

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