On ons, 2012-03-28 at 21:14 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > You can add the dropdown fairly easily in the website code. However, > that assumes that no pages have *changed filenames* between versions. > Which is not true. That would either drop those versions from the > list, or generate a 404. I'm not sure how to create some sort of > mapping between versions that would actually work without being > actively maintained (and if it has to be actively maintained, it will > go out of date).
Not that those cross-version links wouldn't be useful (in fact, I often would like to have them when starting at the latest version going backwards), but they don't really solve the underlying problem. I don't really believe that it is a general search engine behavior to always prefer the oldest resource among alternatives. For example, if I search for something like "presidential elections", I surely don't get links to the oldest presidential election on record. A related problem: At least a search on Google will usually find the documentation of some old version. A search on Bing, however, doesn't find the documentation at all. That indicates to me that there is something seriously wrong in how the web site is constructed. -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
