For Comment: Gem Browser

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

   - 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:

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 :slight_smile:

> + 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?

Err . . . yeah, it is.

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:05:21AM +0900, s.ross wrote:

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 ]
Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."

Oops <sheepish grin>

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On Mar 19, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Jared Ashman wrote:

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

  - word AND absurd => boolean search for either "word" or "absurd"

That should be "word OR absurd"

J.