Subj : And speaking of different formats...
To   : William McBrine
From : Jim Hanoian
Date : Sat Oct 28 2000 11:20 pm

-=> William McBrine wrote to Jim Hanoian <=-

 WM> It occurs to me that it might be useful if the Offline Readers
 WM> list could be sorted by supported packet type. Just now, as I
 WM> was answering Matt, I wanted to see how many readers did QWKE,
 WM> but I had to hit each platform's page and scan manually.

 WM> I know why it's organized this way -- historically, it was the
 WM> QWK Products List, with the other formats being a late addtion.
 WM> And I don't think you'd want to do additional sort types via
 WM> static web pages -- it'd almost have to be a database with cgi.
 WM> Still, just a thought.

It would be interesting to have a dynamic page where the user asked
(via checkbox or whatever) for the items they were interested in...
i.e. WIN95 to get a list of those readers or a combination of WIN95 
and BW to get the ones that fit both criteria.

It would be way cool to have a single database of the readers and
a single page to access them.

I'm not good enough with HTML/java/cgi to solve this one, nor 
sufficiently motivated to pursue it.


.... Jim Hanoian, Augusta, Maine, USA
.... Amazing what caffeine and no sense of self-preservation can do.
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