On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:38, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Jag <agrajag at dragaera.net> writes: > > > I was unsure who to send this to, so I'm just sending it here. Hope it > > gets to the right person. > > > > > > I was playing with the Dragaera Book Search on dragaera.info and noticed > > that it gives black responses at times. For instance, if you search for > > 'teckla reign', then click the second response (should be for > > 500ya01.html) which is a three-star match, you don't see any useful data > > on the match. > > Nope, 500YA doesn't show up until the *7th* response, and is a 2-star > match when I do it, and it's 500ya23 anyway. This is interesting. I go do the search now and I get what you describe, and notice that its searching for 'teckla' OR 'reign', then I go and click search again (without changing the terms), and suddenly its searching for 'teckla' AND 'reign', and produces the output I described. > > But yeah, 500YA01 does show up blank on the detail. This is because > the words never actually appear associated with each other, or even > repeating near themselves, often enough. There is no actual match. > > The problem is that the front-end, htdig, is really intended to search > web pages, and to consider an entire document to be a "hit", and that > doesn't work for what's wanted in booksearch. So I've got rather a > hack going to use it for front-end, and then do detail search in the > chapter when you go there. Hmm.. I see. Wonder if htdig could be convinced to weed them out. Unfortunately, I've never dealt with htdig before from the admin side. > > > Also, is there a way the 'Show' buttons can be turned into normal > > links? > > Hmmm; no real technical reason why it couldn't be done, it'd just be > uglier. I think we have different opinions on 'ugly', but I don't want to argue aesthetics. > > > I'd love to be able to go through the list and just open the first > > few hits, each in their own tab, then go through them, closing the > > ones I don't want, and leaving the others open. Unfortunately, with > > the way it is right now, I have to keep using Back and Forward to go > > through it, which is a little annoying. > > Duplicate the page (it's CTRL-SHIFT/N in Opera, the only one I use > regularly enough to remember such things) before following each link. Unfortunately mozilla doesn't seem to have that functionality.