Andre wrote: Well, whenever I try it, things go wrong. For example, when I try to search "George Bush" on OneLook, the second hit is Wikipedia. If I click on it, it brings me to "http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Bush", which gets interpreted as [[GeorgeBush]] rather than [[George Bush]].
For me, using Mozilla 1.0 or IE 5.5 for WinME, that results in http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bush , with the space encoded as %20. What browser are you using?
Maybe there's a way to force the links to send with underlines instead of spaces, so the results will work in all browsers?
kq
koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:
Andre wrote: Well, whenever I try it, things go wrong. For example, when I try to search "George Bush" on OneLook, the second hit is Wikipedia. If I click on it, it brings me to "http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Bush", which gets interpreted as [[GeorgeBush]] rather than [[George Bush]].
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Maybe there's a way to force the links to send with underlines instead of spaces, so the results will work in all browsers?
(Netscape 4.x is the most common offender here, it gets confused about spaces.)
I expect that replacign space with underscores in the title list they're searching through will do the right thing; I assume their search is already built to deal with underscores (such as we required in our incoming URLs pre-February).
Alternatively, Onelook can properly URL-encode their URLs before dropping them in an HTML page. In either case, that's something to deal with at their end.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
--- Brion VIBBER brion@pobox.com wrote:
(Netscape 4.x is the most common offender here, it gets confused about spaces.)
I expect that replacign space with underscores in the title list they're searching through will do the right thing; I assume their search is already built to deal with underscores (such as we required in our incoming URLs pre-February).
Alternatively, Onelook can properly URL-encode their URLs before dropping them in an HTML page. In either case, that's something to deal with at their end.
I'll write to Doug an ask him about it.
Stephen G.
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