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Hi.
I had a thought for tweaking the SlashDot showcase in Plucker Desktop, and wanted to get some feedback on it.
I'd used Plucker (quite happily--thanks, guys!) for a few years and was installing Desktop 1.4.0.2 (Build date: Aug 6, 2003) and used the showcase to install a channel for SlashDot. (The showcase URL is >http://slashdot.org/palm<.) When I tried to pluck it though, it was taking forever, and grabbing hundreds of URLs! I finally tracked the problem down: one of the first headlines of the day (with 'de-fanged' HTML) included the line "blah blah blah, as mentioned in [a href="http://slashdot.org/foo/bar/baz"]older article[/a]". Plucker followed the URL but the resulting page was one of the standard graphical/link-intensive pages, and since there was still a Depth level remaining it then started trying to follow *those* links.
The fix was easy enough: "Only follow URLs that match this regular expression: http://.*slashdot\.org/palm/.* "
It seems to me that the current behavior might cause problems for new users who don't know that this isn't the standard behavior--and for anyone who isn't expecting the very large file that results. (Mitigating factor: I pluck 4 levels deep, and I think the default is 3, so I don't think the default would try to follow any of the links from the non-PDA page--though it would still itself be included.)
So, having said all that: Since references to older articles happen fairly often , is it worth updating the Showcase to stay in the /palm part of the site? Or am I making too big a deal over odd results from a non-standard configuration? :-]
- -Neil R. - -- Supreme Lord High Commander and Keeper of the Holy Potato - ---------- Random thought for the day:
Smash forehead against keyboard to continue...
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