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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 09/08/07 18:18
Neredbojias wrote:
> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:04:07
> GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:
>
>>> I can't remember 'em all, either, and that seems like a pretty good
>>> link for checkin'.
>>
>> I'm disappointed in a change they just made. The search box on their
>> home page
>>
>> http://www.htmlhelp.com
>>
>> used to give you a simple, one-line per entry, list of hits. Now
>> they've converted to a Google site search, and you don't get that
>> no-nonsense results page any more.
>>
>> Note the lack of any ref to Google-based search on this archive of that
>> page at the WayBack Machine, from April:
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20070406173204/http://htmlhelp.com/
>>
>> Compare to today's search function:
>>
>> http://www.htmlhelp.com/index.html
>
> I see 2 radio buttons as an option, though. Not the same?
They're both Google. One is Google-this-site. That is what I deem
inferior to their *old* search software.
>> On the flip side, this frustration led me to find the two
>> straightforward list pages (which I'd not seen before because I always
>> just used the simple search):
>>
>> http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/olist.html
>>
>> For the other, there's a link near the top of that one for the
>> alpha-sort list.
>>
>> I'd suggest either of those as your bookmark into the site.
>>
>> Also, look at this page again (my original link to this site):
>>
>> http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/block/pre.html
>>
>> See how "contents" says "inline elements except", followed by the
>> exceptions list? Before the recent reworking, "content" simply listed
>> what was allowed, rather than showing exceptions to the list that
>> appears on a linked page. That's a ninor niggle, I'll grant; but I
>> won't withdraw it. :)
>
> Yeah, I'd rather have all the elements listed, myself. IT help sites
> should be as detailed and obvious as possible, -in other words the
> antithesis of the html 4.01 specification mess.
Certainly it's the final word, but it's not where I prefer to *start*.
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