> As it relates to DQSD, I've found the DQSD direction to
> be focused on pure searching.  I maintain a separate "build"
> of DQSD with an add-on I wrote that I call Snippets.
> Snippets allow you to save chunks of web pages (without
> knowing HTML).  When I introduced it originally, some felt
> it was outside the scope of DQSD.

Dan,

Why don't you package the Snippets add-on (similar to the googlespell example)
so that it can be independently packaged, downloaded, and installed from SF?
Your example was one reason I went through the pain of experimenting with the
GoogleSpell add-on.  If there's missing functionality that needs to be added to
DQSD which is generic enough for all searches/add-ons to take advantage of, then
it makes sense to add the functionality.  _But_, if core functionality is
modified to support a single add-on or search, then we're setting a bad
precendent.  One that will result in DQSD having various chunks of code in the
core source which are only used by a single add-on/search.  IMO, some of the
core code already matches that description (calendar) and should be moved to an
add-on.

> I've since though of integrating various features into DQSD.
> I've done a lot of (unrelated) work with RSS new feeds, and I
> have considered adding the feature to DQSD to show a news
> ticker during idle time.  RSS is really the first fruit of a
> semantic web coming to harvest.  However, the DQSD direction
> of sticking to the bread and butter searching leaves me a
> little uninterested in working on such things.

Again, I'd recommend trying to add it as an add-on.

> If there were enough interest I'd love to fork DQSD into
> something less constrictive.  At the same time, I'd hate to
> do it too.

Go for it.

Glenn




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