Hey Shawn, I agree with both of you :)
I appreciate the auto-searches (esp. the calculator, currency conversion and URL detection), but I guess my fear is that the behavior is going to be ambiguous and/or surprising. > If I type a phone number I want the > reverse lookup result. This is a prime example. I live in Sweden - I don't care about the Switchboard search in the slightest, so I've built my own, localized version which queries www.gulasidorna.se instead. Having DQSD detect phone numbers per default is just a waste for me, since it uses the wrong search. > If I type in an IP address I'd like to > return information about that address (and the DNS IP tools > do seem to be a better fit for it). I would expect it to launch as an URL. Different people expect different things. To me, this is just a variation on the aliases problem, where "." means CNN (I've had a lot of people ask me about why they end up at cnn.com when they search for .NET samples), and # means Switchboard (again). I don't know, I guess we could improve and rework the design of auto-handlers, and ship with a minimal set (preferably the ones I'm using ;]). But ideally, I'd like to avoid even more long-distance coupling between .js files via global vars. I'm looking at this more from a maintainer- than a user perspective. > I looked around the DQSD and SF sites and don't see a > roadmap. Are there any milestones for releases beyond the > next one "to include support for XP-SP2? You know, I was hoping we could work something out on the list, and save it in written form. I have some crazy ideas I want to try out for the next version, and I think we should make it a major release (as Brent suggested earlier), so we can take the liberty to work through just the kinds of issues you're talking about. I think for a major version change, we can also afford to break old behavior we no longer care for. I'm not sure how much time I'll have in the coming few days, but I thought I'd start writing up a simple design doc that we can work from. Your concerns are certainly well-founded, I want to start with defining the goals. We should get a Wiki. - Kim ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Archive: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
