I wrote a little pub search thing for the London OpenGuide. Comments welcome. Is this the kind of thing people would like to see on the site? Here it is on my dev site: http://un.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/pubsearch-alpha.cgi
Kake
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:02:12PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote:
I wrote a little pub search thing for the London OpenGuide. Comments welcome. Is this the kind of thing people would like to see on the site?
I can't select more than one feature if you make it a SELECT without MULTIPLE...
There doesn't seem to be a "no matches found" message.
Otherwise, the main thing I'd change about this - if the web supported it, which in practice it doesn't - is the area selection. An alphabetical list of areas doesn't do much good at all - what would be much better would be either a hierarchical list or an imagemap (preferably both).
Roger
On Wed 22 Oct 2003, Roger Burton West roger@firedrake.org wrote:
I can't select more than one feature if you make it a SELECT without MULTIPLE...
It *is* multiple - look at the source. Which browser is it not working in?
There doesn't seem to be a "no matches found" message.
Fixed in version 0.01_02, thanks.
Kake
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:43:15PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote:
On Wed 22 Oct 2003, Roger Burton West roger@firedrake.org wrote:
I can't select more than one feature if you make it a SELECT without MULTIPLE...
It *is* multiple - look at the source. Which browser is it not working in?
Fair enough. Dillo 0.7.1. Can't see any difference between the first one (which works) and the second one (which doesn't).
It also pops up a "no submit button" warning (although the search button works), so evidently it's getting confused by something in there...
R
On Wed 22 Oct 2003, Roger Burton West roger@firedrake.org wrote:
I can't select more than one feature if you make it a SELECT without MULTIPLE...
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:43:15PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote:
It *is* multiple - look at the source. Which browser is it not working in?
On Wed 22 Oct 2003, Roger Burton West roger@firedrake.org wrote:
Fair enough. Dillo 0.7.1. Can't see any difference between the first one (which works) and the second one (which doesn't).
Try it again - I had non-integer sizes, which might have been buggering it up.
It also pops up a "no submit button" warning (although the search button works), so evidently it's getting confused by something in there...
Is this still happening with the current version? (0.01_05) The HTML validates now.
Kake
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:11:11PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote:
Try it again - I had non-integer sizes, which might have been buggering it up.
That works.
It also pops up a "no submit button" warning (although the search button works), so evidently it's getting confused by something in there...
Is this still happening with the current version? (0.01_05)
'Fraid so.
Aha! The form it's talking about is the general search at the top of the page, not the pub-search specifically. So that's all right.
R
I like it, but I am not sure that it is the best "bang per buck". I think that OpenGuide will be hard pushed to compete with the likes of fancyapint if it is just doing wide area wide searches of pubs. I think that where OpenGuide wins is that it is not just a pub database and that it is able to do a "show me places within 200m of" a particular place.
Mind you, I've been wrong before...
George
-----Original Message----- From: openguides-london-bounces@openguides.org [mailto:openguides-london-bounces@openguides.org]On Behalf Of Kate L Pugh Sent: 22 October 2003 16:02 To: london.pm@london.pm.org.realprogrammers.com Cc: openguides-london@openguides.org; openguides-dev@openguides.org Subject: [OpenGuides-London] Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
I wrote a little pub search thing for the London OpenGuide. Comments welcome. Is this the kind of thing people would like to see on the site? Here it is on my dev site: http://un.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/pubsearch-alpha.cgi
Kake
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On Wed 22 Oct 2003, George Brisco george.brisco@happysoftware.co.uk wrote:
I like it, but I am not sure that it is the best "bang per buck". I think that OpenGuide will be hard pushed to compete with the likes of fancyapint if it is just doing wide area wide searches of pubs. I think that where OpenGuide wins is that it is not just a pub database and that it is able to do a "show me places within 200m of" a particular place.
I think I may not have explained the purpose of this very well. The pubsearch is *in addition to* the existing methods of searching, not instead of.
Thanks for reminding me of fancyapint, though. I have copied their idea of searching by nearby Tube stations - live now as version 0.01_03
Kake
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