On 7/10/2010 1:39 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Chris Marshall<[email protected]> wrote: >> If you are typing >> >> PDL> $a = o<TAB> >> >> you get something like this with the Globals completion driver >> loaded:
No, I want *that* in the Perldl2 shell. Right now I get the big list of choices, with prioritizing by what users actually use, the completion could be *much* more helpful. > You want *that* on the website? I think you are expecting a bit too > much, even with AJAX. Even ignoring the programming difficulty, the > result will probably be frustratingly unresponsive due to network > latency. > > In general, you shouldn't expect a website to be able to emulate > locally installed software. > >>> Ok, you want a record of people's searches... I am studying Google >>> Analytics right now. >> >> I don't need to know by person, just the aggregate >> sequences of searches. Even the sequence of topics >> would be a useful for this purpose. If we know that >> this was a common search sequence: >> >> xxx -> yyy -> zzz -> tada! >> >> That could give us ideas where the docs and completion >> features could be modified to enhance the PDL experience... I'm not a web programmer but it would seem that a simple wrapper around the call to google search could save the words searched for and the return URLs from the results, say the first page worth along with a session ID. Cheers, Chris > I've never seen a traffic analysis software that tracks anything like > what you are describing. Most traffic analysis software just track > which pages are visited and the referral page. Btw, I could not find a > way to make Google Analytics to track search queries through the > custom search engine. If there is a way to do it, it sure isn't > obvious. > > Daniel. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
