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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: 14:16 on 13 Nov 2002

On Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:04 PM, Ivor Williams 
[SMTP:iwilliams@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx] wrote:
>
> 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'.

Update: both search boxes are broken. Same fault (no form).


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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 :)