Re: Search keyword dialog box in Mosaic 2.0pre0?
Marc VanHeyningen (mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu)
Thu, 22 Jul 1993 12:20:28 -0500
Thus wrote: Steve Putz
>
>From: " (Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.d400.de>
>>
>> I also really miss highlighting of keywords in the found text. This
>> feature is present in xwais and xgopher and is the main reason for me
>> that I still use xwais.
>
>This might more properly be a server function than a client one.
>Depending on the server, there is no guarantee how the "keywords" used
>to find the document correspond to any words in the document.
>
>I can image a server marking up the document with some appropriate
>highlight emphasis tags around the matching keywords. This would have
>an advantage in cases where the server does sophisticated stemming,
>etc, of search keywords.
The UCSTRI does this, although not in an extremely elegant fashion.
It tends to look a little funny, because Xmosaic will wrap in the
middle of words if emphasis changes (e.g. if I have
<STRONG>Algori</STRONG>thms
it may wrap in the middle of the word. I'm guessing this is a Motif
text bug?
I agree that it's a server function rather than a client one, in
general.
- Marc
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