Jeff Wheeler wrote: ...
Search that follows it is awkward. There are three large search choices for beginners: 1) the search at the top, which confusingly has two submit buttons (with ambiguous differences to a beginner); 2) the Search link near the top of the navigation (which links to an almost empty page that might as well be included at the link's location); and 3) the Search link underneath the About header, which doesn't seem to belong at all.
I agree the search aspect could be improved: the MediaWiki software/ database indexing need an upgrade, the Google 'custom search' Haskell logos are out-of-date and having two Google search links seems excessive. Repeating my old search for 'mdo' which started me on this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg33337.html the box at the top still returns no results, but it is better because it does now suggest looking at this page http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaskellWiki:Searching As I understand it the box at the top is built into the wiki software and can be improved by upgrading the MediaWiki version/indexing. (It would be good to report to MediaWiki that the error message should if possible say "Search words of X characters or less are not indexed" when appropriate rather than "Zero results". Maybe the latest version is cleverer.) The two Google links, neither of them added by me, both have old logos and seem to give similar results for 'mdo' except that the first returns results beyond just haskell.org. For this 'mdo' search I can't see any advantage in having two Google search links. Richard. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
