Max Horn wrote: [] >>> Just had another idea: We should consider limiting the number of >>> packages displayed on a page. After all, listing 7000 packages >>> generates a fairly big page, which is slow to load. Instead, how >>> about restricting to 100 pkgs per page or something like that?. >> Having a "Show Packages per Page" setting would be nice, although >> we also should have an (optional) show all button. > > Sure, no problem. Although I fail to see its importance. Google, > Amazon, Ebay, etc. -- none has a "Show all" option, at most a "Show > XYZ per page" option. Why would it be useful, ever, to see 7000 > packages listed on a single webpage? The only thing I can come up > with is "to search through them" -- but not having to do that was in > a sense the whole point behind overhauling the PDB, wasn't it?
Google is a different story, it sorts by importance. With Amazon or other shopping sites, I often get very annoyed and go away, because it is so awfully slow to call many tiny pages that give you only a little piece of the required information. If you have a moderately fast internet connection, displaying one page with 7000 lines is *a lot* faster (like 50 times faster) than displaying 70 pages with 100 lines each. And there are many ways you can search that 7000 line page very quickly, like scrolling and looking with your own eyes; very useful if you don't remember the exact name of a package. Or searching for a string with cmd-F; much faster than letting the web server search. If I ask a question that has 7000 packages as an answer, I want to see them. If I want to see less, I ask a different question. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
