| From: | Wordman <wordman@*******.COM> |
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| Subject: | Searchable, HTML version of NAGEE |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:58:20 -0500 |
experiment, I put the collected Neo-Anarchist's Guide to Everything Else
into a Notes database and made it available as a searchable web site.
Overall, I think Domino is pretty cool.
Good Points
1) Searchability. Domino does full text indexing of a database and provides
web interface to query it. This is really useful, eliminating the need to
write CGI, use of a TWAIN (or any other) engine and so on.
2) Speed of setup. I set up the basic database in about twenty minutes.
Importing the contents was fairly quick, but I needed to do a lot of
reformatting. That took about a week. Setting up various views of data is
almost instant.
3) Transparent to publish to the web. Once the thing is available as a Notes
database, it transfers to the web automatically.
Bad Points
1) Weird URLs. Notes URLs are really funky. If you want to link to a page on
this new site, use the URL that I write at the bottom of the page. It is
much more readable than the bizarre numeric URLs you'll see in your
browser's location field.
2) HTML Translation. Notes stores everything in its own rich text format.
Web servicing a web request, it translates this to HTML. This translation is
not perfect, so you will likely see some sub-optimal layout and HTML code.
3) Not the world's best performance.
Overall, I like the result. I hope you enjoy it. You can reach the
searchable HTML NAGEE via my standard NAGEE page:
http://pobox.com/~wordman/srun/nagee.html
Wordman
