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Posted by Joel Shepherd on 05/05/07 02:08
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit James Hutton:
>
> > Well it's the roll of honour for ARA General Belgrano, so I'd like to
> > get all of them mentioned in one place.
>
> I asked whether it would be useful to visitors. The few people who would be
> interested in such matters would have their needs satisfied if you had just
> a link to a document that contains the names as a list, in any format (HTML
> <ul>, plain text, whatever).
Depending on the OP's intentions that may or may not be practical. A
list of the 323 killed when she was sunk might be doable in an HTML
<ul>; a list of roughly 1140 aboard at the time is stretching the limits
and somewhat less friendly to visitors; a list of the 10000+ (probably
more on the order of 20-30K) of those who served with the ship while she
was commissioned by Argentina is beyond practical limits for a useful
single document; a list of those plus the additional 10-15K more who
served with the ship while she was commissioned by the US is as well.
And, given those numbers and the way human reproduction works, you're
also probably significantly underestimating the number of people who
would be interested. I have first-hand experience with this use-case: do
you?
A single giant list of 1000-45000 names is not at all pleasant to read,
even if from a machine's point of view it's quite efficient. Neither is
a page with a single long-but-reasonable list of names a very efficient
use of canvas.
What could possibly be wrong, then, with wanting to present that long
list -- or intelligently selected subsets of it -- in a columnar
presentation, to use space more efficiently and make navigation less
problematic as well?
--
Joel.
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