Website Update: Text Hunter Edition!
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 6:57 pm
But first, I had noticed a few too many bad links appearing on the forum from the new Search page, so we fixed it. They should all have '%20' instead of spaces in them so the forum code'll capture and convert them correctly.
But for me and Summer Storm's main triumph (and a bit more importantly to a few of you), we overrode the browser's text search capability with one that actually works on the new website. This is most useful on pages like the Pet and Item Inventories, but could help on the lore and item list pages too. Works about the same as the browser's version - A little better in some ways, a little worse in others.
As for the particulars: Cmd/Ctrl+F is the shortcut for it, but there's also a click toggle in the new menu entry. Enter does what you hope it does with the search controls. The 'Aa' button toggles case-sensitive searching, and as much as I'm sure I'm going to regret it, I set the thing to not search text in the header/footer/menu areas.
The interface is about 90% in place, as we will be adding in some more fanciness in a few days time.
It technically isn't a foolproof search algorithm either, but I don't think it'll fail on the new website. No matter how much Summer Storm gives me the evil eye over it. >.>
And, ah, pay no mind to Summer Storm's incoherent ramblings about recursive functions. She should be better in a few days. Maybe. I hope. <.<
But for me and Summer Storm's main triumph (and a bit more importantly to a few of you), we overrode the browser's text search capability with one that actually works on the new website. This is most useful on pages like the Pet and Item Inventories, but could help on the lore and item list pages too. Works about the same as the browser's version - A little better in some ways, a little worse in others.
As for the particulars: Cmd/Ctrl+F is the shortcut for it, but there's also a click toggle in the new menu entry. Enter does what you hope it does with the search controls. The 'Aa' button toggles case-sensitive searching, and as much as I'm sure I'm going to regret it, I set the thing to not search text in the header/footer/menu areas.
The interface is about 90% in place, as we will be adding in some more fanciness in a few days time.
It technically isn't a foolproof search algorithm either, but I don't think it'll fail on the new website. No matter how much Summer Storm gives me the evil eye over it. >.>
And, ah, pay no mind to Summer Storm's incoherent ramblings about recursive functions. She should be better in a few days. Maybe. I hope. <.<