Re: COLOR CODEING on RDS recent user contributions page
Hello again,
>The color codeing scheme needs to be re designed to reflect the programs
>that will run on multiple platforms. A LINUX visitor to the site will get
>the impression that only the "green" coded listings will run on LINUX - and
>they are a precious few. As of this posting it appears to me that six (6)
>of the first fourteen (14) postings will run on LINUX - none of these
>listings have any color green color code to indicate that they will run on
>LINUX. And only one or two have any indication in the written description
>that they will run on LINUX.
>
>The color coding scheme needs to be revised - perhaps with some type of
>rainbow bar.
A rainbow bar might be a bit much to ask for considdering
that it couldn't be done with a simple
<tr bgcolor="#COLOR"> statement. At least I don't think you
can do multiple colors that way. I think a gray color would
be good for totally generic code. But what about code that
runs on 2 platforms but not the third?
A purple color for Dos/Win? And what about
Dos/Linux? I know this is rather unlikely but there might be
something that fits this description. Would we use a mixture
of red and green which would be yellow? or Brown?
I think it is obvious that there is no simple easy solution
to this problem. And I for one won't feel too bad if nothing
changes for a while but it is a problem that needs to be
adressed eventually.
>The color code bar can be updated upon reports from users
>that the code works on LINUX or other operating systems.
>
> > we've had requests to add a check box to select
> > DOS or Windows or Linux or any combination,
> > but I didn't feel it was that useful, since many of the
> > programs labelled as DOS will actually work on 2 or
> > 3 platforms, not just DOS, plus
> > it's not hard to visually
> > filter the colors in the search results.
> >
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO TO FILTER RESULTS IF THE DATA
> YOU ARE FILTERING IS NOT ACCURATE?
I wouldn't call it really inacurate. I think the green color
is just for Linux ONLY items. But I agree, it's not really
obvious what code will work on which platforms.
Perhaps it wouldn't be infeasable to make the search engine
search a database instead of the HTML document. This could
make more specific searches possible. Now that we have EDS
this wouldn't be too hard would it?
later,
Lewis Townsend
keroltarr at hotmail.com
http://geocities.com/keroltarr/
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