Re: [gopher] Overbite: should the default for clicks be inline view?
> Okay I think I get it. The "menu item" IS the icon LOL. I *think* this
> would be my 3rd choice, since I liken display strings to URLs in
> browsers. I also think that most people would expect that clicking on a
> display string would take them to another place - much like an <a
> href="http://host.sld.tld";>blahblah</a> would.
>
> > - Clicking on the + or the *icon* inserts the document inline, and clicking
> > the display string goes to the document.
>
> My 1st best preference
Fair enough. Jacob, does this seem okay to you also? Other opinions?
OverbiteFF 3.0 will still support Fx3.6, but will be the last version to do
so since 3.6 is dying soon (end of April).
> Now, having said all of that, there are some things that don't behave as
> one (actually, I was only talking about myself) might expect - at least
> not how I first expected. This is in regards to VISHNU, which I have
> universally adopted across my entire gopherhole instead of the old
> Veronica behaviour.
>
> I didn't see a reason to offer both when one is clearly the intended
> search engine behaviour you were moving towards, so I adopted it and
> support it only on my pages (even though you state[d] the VISHNU format
> was in beta, last time I checked ;)
It's sort of one of those perpetual beta kinds of things. I'm trying to
adjust the ranking to incorporate relevance, but I imagine the aggregate
number is a good surrogate statistic, so I'm not sure how to do that.
> Here's a screenie of my home page, and the way I deal with the behaviour
> of Veronica 2 menus:
>
> http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/d4oz84wi/gopherdoc_sample.png
>
> If you're changing anything that will require me to change the copy on
> my pages pls lemme know and I'll make the neccessary adjustments :)
No, no plans to. That's fine.
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