# For Comment: Gem Browser

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/for-comment-gem-browser/45232>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [17 March 2008 03:20 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/for-comment-gem-browser/45232 "2008-03-17T03:20:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jared\_Ashman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@Jared\_Ashman](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jared_Ashman)\
**Post date:** [19 March 2008 20:12 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/for-comment-gem-browser/45232/21 "2008-03-19T20:12:55Z")

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Nitpicky, but in the help text you've got:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- word AND absurd =\> boolean search for either "word" or "absurd"

That should be "word OR absurd"

J.

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> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:05 PM, s.ross \<cwdinfo@gmail.com\> wrote:
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> > On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:  
> > \> It looks excellent.  
> > \>  
> > \> + Description: The way the description has been added is great. The  
> > \> font  
> > \> is a touch small, and a way to unexpand it again after expanding  
> > \> might be  
> > \> nice, though I suppose the unexpand isn't really important.
> > 
> > \>\> In the queue.
> > 
> > \>  
> > \> + Cookies: Glad to hear it doesn't break without cookies now. Thank  
> > \> you.  
> > \> Even though I'm accepting cookies from the site, websites that fail  
> > \> without cookies bother me -- and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
> > 
> > \>\> Point taken.
> > 
> > \> + 25 results: Are you planning to add some functionality for seeing  
> > \> the  
> > \> rest of the results at some point, or just expect that people will  
> > \> refine  
> > \> their searches somehow if they don't get the results they wanted?
> > 
> > \>\> Lower in the queue. I personally feel that the more people think  
> > \>\> about their question, the better their answers will be. I'll  
> > consider  
> > \>\> pagination if people think it's important
> > 
> > \> + Logo: I like "{ zippy graphic omitted }". Don't take my  
> > \> preference in  
> > \> this for objective advice, though.
> > 
> > \>\> I had to put a dig in 🙂
> > 
> > \> + Help: In my opinion, the way you have the help text presented is  
> > \> excellent. Keep it.
> > 
> > \>\> Thanks
> > 
> > \> I tend to keep JavaScript turned on in my browser, but there are (of  
> > \> course) others who do not. The fact the Gemmy Gem Browser is unusable  
> > \> without JavaScript seems like an unnecessary limitation. This  
> > \> probably  
> > \> isn't the most important problem to fix, but you might consider it for  
> > \> the future, in case someone wants to use it from Lynx, or even write a  
> > \> command line script in Ruby that accesses results from GGB.
> > 
> > \>\> This is exposed as a REST service, so anyone can do searches via  
> > \>\> a simple HTTP protocol. Pretty cool, eh?

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**Author:** ![Chad\_Perrin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Chad\_Perrin1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Chad_Perrin1)\
**Post date:** [19 March 2008 21:36 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/for-comment-gem-browser/45232/22 "2008-03-19T21:36:45Z")

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Err . . . yeah, it is.

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> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:05:21AM +0900, s.ross wrote:
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> > On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > 
> > \>I tend to keep JavaScript turned on in my browser, but there are (of  
> > \>course) others who do not. The fact the Gemmy Gem Browser is unusable  
> > \>without JavaScript seems like an unnecessary limitation. This  
> > \>probably  
> > \>isn't the most important problem to fix, but you might consider it for  
> > \>the future, in case someone wants to use it from Lynx, or even write a  
> > \>command line script in Ruby that accesses results from GGB.
> > 
> > \>\> This is exposed as a REST service, so anyone can do searches via  
> > \>\> a simple HTTP protocol. Pretty cool, eh?
> 
> --  
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [[http://ccd.apotheon.org](http://ccd.apotheon.org) ]  
> Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Steve\_Ross](https://rubytalk.org/u/Steve_Ross)\
**Post date:** [19 March 2008 20:22 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/for-comment-gem-browser/45232/23 "2008-03-19T20:22:03Z")

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Oops \<sheepish grin\>

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> On Mar 19, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Jared Ashman wrote:
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> > Nitpicky, but in the help text you've got:
> > 
> > &nbsp;&nbsp;- word AND absurd =\> boolean search for either "word" or "absurd"
> > 
> > That should be "word OR absurd"
> > 
> > J.

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