On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:37:56PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
On 08/11/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:39:27AM +1100, Tim
Starling wrote:
> As for search and go, well my preference for a long time has
> been that we should remove the "search" button from the sidebar,
> to make it harder to find and thus reduce the request rate. Go
> is much faster than search, if it manages to find a title match
> without sending you on to the full text search. Most readers don't
> know the difference, and if they did, they would click "go" in the
> great majority of cases.
Second. All in favor?
Not quite - make it a "go" button, but still *call* it "Search."
Because something everyone looks for on coming to a site is where to
search.
Excellent point.
Ratified as amended. :-)
And while I'm here: let me restate my pleasure with how the
Mediawiki page renders on my CSS-less Blackberry, and pray it to
continue that way...
Cheers,
-- jra
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