Subject:
|
Re: 2 Things...
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:04:52 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
802 times
|
| |
|
|
I'll second that vote (for the set search on the main page).
Or at least a direct link to a set search .. if there's one there, I don't
see it.
Mike
Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> > "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> writes:
> > > I hope no one gets lost in the shuffle.
> >
> > One thing, though, it may be a good idea to retain the Pause database
> > search box on the front page? I figure a lot of people use it.
>
> It'll come back in a different (and better) form where it's interleaved
> with the other search results. There'll be a /lego/ section off the main
> www root homepage for restricting the search just to the LEGO database
> portions, after the other stuff is folded in.
>
> It's gone from the homepage now because multiple quick-search forms on a
> single HTML page are problematic for Internet Exploiter. That is, if there
> are two or more forms on a single page each without explicit Submit • buttons,
> then MSIE doesn't know which form you are hitting the Enter key in. This
> caused a lot of grief for people when there were two forms on the homepage
> before, and putting in an explicit Submit button to work around the bug
> would be an icky kludge.
>
> A workable stopgap until the interleaved search results are a reality might
> be a hyperlink at the top of the present search-results page which takes • the
> user over to the sets-DB page for their query. At least that would help • get
> people where they want to go if they accidentally used the Search • Newsgroups
> box to search for a set.
>
> --Todd
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: 2 Things...
|
| (...) There is a direct link to a set search, yes. But it's not prominent enough. It's in the list of Links & Resources on the left. Last night I made the main search give a forwarding link to the sets-DB if it's given a number. --Todd (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: 2 Things...
|
| (...) It'll come back in a different (and better) form where it's interleaved with the other search results. There'll be a /lego/ section off the main www root homepage for restricting the search just to the LEGO database portions, after the other (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
|
54 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
