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RE: [grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith

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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: RE: [grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith
Date: 14:04 on 13 Nov 2002

On Monday, November 11, 2002 7:42 PM, Earle Martin 
[SMTP:grubstreet@xxxxxxxx.xxx] wrote:
> I was looking at wikipedia.org today and decided that I like their layout a
> lot. It makes sense; having the toolbar links on the side of the page where
> you can see them easily is much nicer than their being stuck way down the
> bottom (or at the top, if you have that option set in your preferences). I
> don't want to have to scroll to search. So, I did some rude'n'crude hacking,
> and hereby present for your approval:
>
> http://grault.net/cgi-bin/test.pl

What's with the two search boxes?

Having two of them looks odd, and your new one doesn't work, as there is no 
HTML form surrounding it. It might be an idea to make the new one call my 
search.pl - changing search.pl to prettify and Grubstreetify it. All it needs 
is a param 'search'.

Ivor.

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[grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith Earle Martin 19:42 on 11 Nov 2002
http://grault.net/cgi-bin/test.pl
- RE: [grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith Ivor Williams 14:56 on 12 Nov 2002
  cool! I'm glad you refrained from frames though.
  - Re: [grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith Earle Martin 15:46 on 12 Nov 2002
    Frames? FRAMES?!
- RE: [grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith Ivor Williams 15:55 on 12 Nov 2002
  I think the solution might be quite simply the following:
  - Re: [grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith Earle Martin 16:42 on 12 Nov 2002
    Oho. It looks like I was barking up the wrong end of the stick. I had to
- RE: [grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith Ivor Williams 14:04 on 13 Nov 2002
  What's with the two search boxes?
- Ivor Williams 14:16 on 13 Nov 2002
  hacking,
  - Re: [grubstreet] Layout, and issues therewith Earle Martin 22:36 on 16 Nov 2002
    test.pl uses the active content - the search box exists on HomePage, ergo it
- Kate L Pugh 13:57 on 26 Nov 2002
  Finally got around to giving this a fair trial today. I think I can
  - Earle Martin 16:10 on 26 Nov 2002
    Hooray :)