At 01:33 PM 3/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Help me out Dan, how does what you described differ from the search engine
>that is already on the site?

James,

It would be a cross between an index and a search engine, so
people using it could "know" what items are indexed in techref,
rather than have to guess. It would not require any "explicit"
cross-linking however, but just a way to direct the keyword
clicked upon into the search engine -[this cannot be too hard].

You would "not" want to use pop up/scrollable windows - [too bad
someone did not shoot Steve Jobs immediately after he invented those]
- but rather would look something like the index in a book - multiple
columns, easily scanned with minimual scrolling. Something like the
following - you could easily display 100-150 keywords on one webpage
prior to scrolling:


Enter Search word, or click on keyword
+---------------------+
|                     |  GO
+---------------------+

Keyword Table
-------------
A/D converters        capacitors       D/A converters    op amps
analog amplifiers     charge pumps     error messages    oscillators
BCD conversion        compilers - C    .                 oscilloscopes
binary numbers        compilers - PIC  .                 .
.                     .                .                 RS-232
.                     .                .                 SPI
[25 lines worth]      .                I2C               .
.                     .                integrators       .
.                     digital I/O      .                 .


>
>Well, how about an index of the site, along the lines
>of what I mentioned?
>

  I wonder that
>>you couldn't easily put in a list of 100 or so "keywords", one of
>>who's selection who "automatically" evoke the search engine to
>>find references.
>>
>>This would provide an implicit cross-reference, and should take
>>essentially no work to implement [possibly an invalid assumption].
>>
>>- dan michaels
>>www.oricomtech.com
>>==================

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