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Re: Announcing new set database
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Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:11:22 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.admin.database, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
Looks great!

One bug and one suggestion:

(1) The bug is that there is a missing range indicator
    at the top of a listing, e.g. go to
    http://guide.lugnet.com/set/
    and follow the quick link to trains.
    The first screen is OK --- it has
    "First 20 of 224 Set Matches".  But then click on
    the right arrow for the next page, and it shows
    "21–40 of 224 Set Matches".  I guess there is supposed
    to be a dash there between the 21 and 40.

Hmm.  I see an en-dash there (not a hyphen and not an em-dash but an en-dash).
That doesn't show up for you?  What browser/OS were you viewing with?

It's using entity – there, which is kind of a Microsoft-ism in character
set terms, but I had previously thought that all browsers honored it anyway,
and converted it to a hyphen if the en-dash wasn't available.  Hmm.

I could have sworn that when I looked at the page
source the first time, it was just "2140", but now
when I look it is "21&#15040".
Yes, it doesn't come out on Netscape 3.01 on Solaris
(I know it's old, but our sysadmins always have
"more important" things to do) but I don't expect
anyone to care about such an old version anymore.
Note, it is unrelated to the boldification.
I tried taking out the <B> and </B> and the en-dash
is still missing.

(2) Suggestion:  Duplicate the left and right arrows
[snip]

(3) Another Suggestion:  enable search by multiple
keys at the same time.
I wanted to look at all 1980-1985 train sets
but couldn't figure out how.
I couldn't figure out how to look at only 1980 train sets, either.
Is there a way?

/Eric McC/



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  Re: Announcing new set database
 
(...) Nope, it was always there (I just checked). BTW, are you sure you aren't seeing "21&#150;40" now? There should be a ";" after the "&#150", otherwise it's grammatically incorrect HTML, and you'd probabaly see "20" followed by a splotch (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database)

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(...) Hmm. I see an en-dash there (not a hyphen and not an em-dash but an en-dash). That doesn't show up for you? What browser/OS were you viewing with? It's using entity &#150; there, which is kind of a Microsoft-ism in character set terms, but I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database)

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