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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