October 1999
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
14h 47m
English
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Potential Extensions
The search engine is pretty useful the way it is. What’s even better is that you can make some significant improvements or changes. Here are some possibilities:
Make it JavaScript 1.0 compatible
Make it harder to break
Display banner ads
Add refined search capabilities
Develop cluster sets
JavaScript 1.0 Compatibility
You know it, and I know it. Both of the major browsers are in the latter 4.x or early 5.x versions. Both are free. But there are still people out there clunking along with MSIE 3.02 or NN 2.x. I still get a surprising hit count of visitors with those credentials to HotSyte—The JavaScript Resource (http://www.serve.com/hotsyte/ ).
Since a search engine is pretty much a core feature of a web site, you might consider converting this app for JavaScript 1.0. Fortunately, all you have to do is go through the code listed earlier, line by line, figure out which features aren’t supported in JavaScript 1.0, and change all of them.
OK. I already did that, but admit it: I had you going. Actually,
you’ll find the modified version in /ch01/js1.0/. Open
index.html in your browser
just like you did with the original. In this section, we’ll
take a quick look at what will make the app work in JavaScript 1.0
browsers. There are three changes:
No JavaScript source file (a browser issue really)
No array sorting (with the
sort()method)A workaround for the
split()method
NN 2.x and MSIE 3.x do not support .js source
files.[2] The workaround for this is to embed the profiles ...
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