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Subject:Tip of the month - HTML based search engine added From:"Peter Ring, PRC" <prc -at- PRC -dot- DK> Date:Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:22:26 +1
There are now 38 of the very popular "Tip of the month" on the "User-friendly
manuals' website", and I have had some complaints, that it was becoming a bit
difficult to find a subject. Not any longer !!!
I'm happy to announce, that I have now been able to add a search engine which
can search on titles, descriptions and keywords for all "tip of the month"
files.
It works at least with Netscape Navigator 4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 2+.
Netscape Navigator 3 makes the search correctly and then crashes and I have
consequently blocked it until this problem has been solved (I have tried a
lot.)
So far search engines has been cgi-script based, and none were offered by my
host. But last week I found an HTML/JavaScript based search engine which works
very nicely after some heavy modifications. If you are interested, you can take
a look at the code.
Greetings from Denmark
Peter Ring
PRC (Peter Ring Consultants)
- specialists in user friendly manuals.
prc -at- prc -dot- dk
- the "User Friendly Manuals" website with links, bibliography, list
of prof. associations, and tips for technical writers: http://www.prc.dk/user-friendly-manuals/
- special software for technical writers: http://www.prc.dk/software/
