On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:44:38PM +0200, Newsbite wrote: > I have been playing with this idea a long time, and while I would have liked to give > it a try myself, with the current filter of freenet, I think it's better left to > someone else (the creator of TFE, for instance) - maybe he can create a 'thnks to' > footnote ;-). > > Anyway, what I was thinking was, that there are javascripts (and probably other > stuff as well :-) that can emulate a searchengine. The database is stored as part of > the javascript on a webpage, thus, and is readily (and very fast) at showing the > index of the links (of the word(s) that were requested). > > This is not ideal, ofcourse, but it would be an improvement to the current system. > > Once again, I've told my idea on IIRC, and it was met rather positively, but with > the remarks (which had occured to me also ;-): > > It still needs someone to insert/retrieve the database. > > Wich is true, but that could be said of the current TFE system too. Besides, it > can't be that difficult to largely automate the process. > > The advantages are legio: > > 1)a real search-like mechanism > 2)more user friendly > 3)no more scrolling and manually searching for stuff (TFE is beginning to become TOO > large to easely navigate through) > 4)the moral issue is greately reduced; because (links to) 'illegal' things such as > copyrighted material (or worse) would only be visible when you actively seek/request > it > > It would require, however, that at least for this particular script (or for some > particular page), the java-script filter would have to let it pass without much fuzz. > > Not ideal, perhaps, but untill a true good-working, scalable, anonymous searchengine > is created to work in freenet, it would beat everything that is currently available > on freenet. > > Comments?
Why not just standardize the index format and build a client (in the form of a set of HTML forms which can be used by pages) into fproxy? -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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