Very cool, Jim. I would like to see it installed and linked to from our top-level page. Rick At 05:54 PM 10/26/98 -0500, Jim Eggert wrote:

I've made a rudimentary search capability for our German genealogy website. You can find it at <http://www.genealogy.com/gene/tmp/up/pages/search.html>

It uses JavaScript, i.e. runs a script on the user's browser, not on the server. It uses the AltaVista website, so it is only as good as their crawler.

Some bugs/features that you may want to know about:

1. Pressing enter in the search string, at least with my browser, results in a new copy of the search page, with the search string cleared.

2. All of www.genealogy.com is searched, including whatever is outside the gene scheme. I guess this can be changed easily.

3. The resulting page of hits is delivered directly by the AltaVista server; the user must press Back to get back to our site.

Much the same functionality could also be created without JavaScript, just initializing the search string and relying on the user not to delete that initialization.

I'm sure that there are real programmers in our group who can vastly improve on this beginning.

-- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@LL.mit.edu

P.S. Ich bitte Rainer um Verzeihung, dass ich auf Englisch schreibe. In diesem Fall aber wuerde die deutsche Uebersetzung fast gleich sein.