22 Oct
2003
22 Oct
'03
4:02 p.m.
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
22 Oct
22 Oct
4:06 p.m.
New subject: [OpenGuides-London] Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
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
4:43 p.m.
New subject: [OpenGuides-London] Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
On Wed 22 Oct 2003, Roger Burton West <roger(a)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
4:49 p.m.
New subject: [OpenGuides-London] Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:43:15PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote:
On Wed 22 Oct 2003, Roger Burton West
<roger(a)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).
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
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?
6:11 p.m.
New subject: [OpenGuides-London] Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
On Wed 22 Oct 2003, Roger Burton West <roger(a)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(a)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
23 Oct
23 Oct
9:56 a.m.
New subject: [OpenGuides-London] Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:11:11PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote:
'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
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) 
22 Oct
22 Oct
4:19 p.m.
New subject: [OpenGuides-London] Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
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
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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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5:53 p.m.
New subject: [OpenGuides-London] Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
On Wed 22 Oct 2003, George Brisco <george.brisco(a)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
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