Re: Indexing Euphoria HTML Documentation for context sensitive help
- Posted by useless_ Jan 20, 2012
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I was there, in 2008. I was impressed that you managed to come up with a working system from nothing in a day or two.
Thanks. I used hackserv by bjackson, which used code by jconsuegra and gharris, and DCuny's win32lib v0.42, all glued to the backside of mirc to be the irc presence. I wish i could remember who helped with the php code later.
There are technical difficulties with using IRC bots exclusively for that functionality (such as the difficulties of putting a web page on the web to search or allowing others to do off-line searches), which leaves the door open for other approaches to spring up and co-exist side-by-side.
I had a system for Tiggr to respond to publicly available webpages via any browser. You contact the site with your search criteria, the site used php to contact Tiggr at my home, and she'd generate a reply and wrap it in html back to the php on the server, and the php on the commercially hosted site forwarded this to you transparently. This solves some major problems with irc when dealing with a lot of data, data needing formatting, or with pictures. Like asking her what an AT32UC3L064 is.
People complained bitterly about having the http link to the answer when the question was asked on irc. And they wouldn't ask Tiggr thru a browser interface as simple as a Google box in a browser window. No matter how much code i wrote, or data i made available, it was never acceptable. In the late 1990's, Tiggr even recieved and sent email, no one ever used it.
Good luck. I am truely wondering how you'll ever satisfy more than just yourself with this.
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