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About the set search box...
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:08:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> > 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.
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> 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.
Alrighty, here's the scoop:
If you're fortunate enough to be running Netscape Navigator, which handles
multiple quick-search boxes on a single page correctly, then you'll get a
second search box on the main homepage. Its labeled "Search Set Database"
and works just like before.
OTOH, if you're running Internet Explorer, the second search box is replaced
by a static link to the sets search page.
I really hate to make browser-specific detections and changes like this, but
since MSIE is broken with respect to multiple quick-search boxes, this seems
like a reasonable second-best compromise. A third-best compromise (not
chosen) would have been to put tiny Submit buttons after both entry fields,
but these would have to appear everywhere on the site in order for the design
to remain consistent going forward, and that would really gunk things up
unnecessarily.
BTW, if anyone happens to know whether more recent versions of MSIE handle
multiple quick-search boxes correctly, I could make the logic a little more
sensitive to the browser version number.
> 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.
I put this in too.
--Todd
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: About the set search box...
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| If I had to choose between either a group search or set search on the main entry page, I'd choose set. Put the group search behind the link in the case where you can't display both, not the set. Heck, the set search should be on every page. It's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2 Things...
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| (...) 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)
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