Subscribe to Site Feed

what's new f.a.q about us feedback

history women portraits mythology

arts music culture paintings

tags sitemap timeline index a-z

pictures! stamps erotica biographies

gandhi tribals temples religions

 

Best of AnthoBLOGy • Unripe Revolution • Rooster's Dharma • Don't Know Jack • No Love for Condi • Blogger's Block • Father of the Bride • TinTin's Diary - I • TinTin's Diary II • Hate Bollywood • Child Labor • M.F.Husain Guilty •Marathi & Konkani • Artist's Daughter • India's First IT Guru

Computing, Libraries, Tennis, India & other interests of Vikas Kamat

Deep Linking

Really Really Deep Linking EV (the chief Blogger)'s short note on Better Linking had me thinking on this feature, and I have a prototype of a really-deep-pointing feature for our ContentServer. I call it as pointing instead of linking, because that's what it is. The user can specify a search term (la Google) that will be highlighted in the story. It is a very convinient way to point to the stories without paragraph level < a name tags. I personally find the paragraph level tagging distasteful (for look and feel) and cumbersome (for writers). To see an overuse of anchors, look at Dave Winer's weblog. He anchors every sentence! Of course, my prototype works only for the dynamically rendered content. Static Rendered websites will have to wait till a standard specification is defined, or a browser supports it via URL. See Deep Pointing in Action • Pointing to Pakistan on a story on RSS • Highlight a magician's turban amidst 50 others • Kamat's own Meeting God is coming As you can tell, embeded within the URL is the search string to be searched and highlighted. I foresee that in the future, the search engines will be able to provide this search terms to the websites they refer to enhance the user experience. Alternately, if you have a lot of cycles, you can determine the search terms from the HTTP_REFERER to provide automatic highlighting today. (Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!) First Written: Monday, October 29, 2001 Last Modified: 1/23/2003 Tags: CMS

Browse More Entries

About Me:

• My Home Page
• Contact me
• Kamat Family Album

Powered  NOT by Blogger or MovabaleType or WordPress, but by SimplyBlog, a software I wrote to create blogs. See details of implementation or download SimplyBlog.