On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:37:43 Marcus wrote: > > I think that the random arrangement on each hit is a good idea, but > > it would need to be random within each region or Country listing. > > Why make people in Morocco have to search the whole list just to > > find their nerarest. > > In reply to Andrew and Niel, why don't we take a new databased approach.
Simply because we can't. the Collabnet infrastructure does not support such an approach. > Instead of a huge static listing page, just use a customised search. We > tag each distributor with delivery country, OS, contact languages etc. This approach has been discussed previously on other lists (and this one too IIRC). It always comes back to the fact that to do this would require using an external or satellite server. One suggested solution was to send the queries to another server, where it would be processed by that server (PHP/MySQL was the most commonly suggested method), a page generated and sent back to the Collabnet server, and from there to the user's browser. there are just too many points of failure involved, and there is also the objections to taking any of the official pages off-site. > > The user can choose their delivery destination and receives a randomised > list of all distributors who deliver to them. As extra options they > could select OS, contact language, tech support services, training, > etc. Make the basic interface very simple to use, with only country of > destination to select. > > Even better would be to keep CO2 emissions in mind, and give priority to > distributors in the user's own country or region. The latter is a bit > tricky, but simply giving priority to those in the users country would > be simple. I'd love to see such an interface, but at the present, unless certain conditions can be met (not the least of which is someone donating a suitable server and bandwidth), it just isn't feasible. > > > Neil, I don't see where the advantage is in selecting a distributor > alphabetically. Maybe I misunderstood you, but what does a user gain by > choosing a seller who's name begins with "A" rather than "H"? > > > Marcus > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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