Enhancing of the Prev 1 ... 5 6 7 ... nnn Next in HTML search results

[luckulucki]

Hi,

can you please consider enhancing the http-server's html page to walk through the search results per page?

Sorry, I don't know the name of that navigation, it looks like this:

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Now, you can only click on < Previous or Next > to skip one single page. Same with 1 and 7 which have the exact same result like < Previous or Next >.

This is rather pointless and very inconvenient for the users who want to skip, say, 3 or 5 pages at once.

My point is:

When you have a search result with a lot of pages (more then 100) and want to skip the first 10 pages, you have to click 10 times, which is very cumbersome and time consuming.

I'd like to suggest a nicer way for the user to skip pages ;-D

Say,

<Previous 1 2 3 4 5 ... 6 7 8 9 10 ... 317 Next >

or

<Previous 10 <Previous 5 <Previous 1 2 3 4 5 ... 6 7 8 9 10 ... 317 Next > Next 5> Next 10>
(Prev 5, 10 or Next 5, 10 only if available of course)

Something we can use to skip more than one single page at once and something which helps us to navigate trough the result pages quickly.

What do you think?
This is just a thought, there might be better ideas and I'm open to everything which helps me to quickly walk through the pages.


Thank you.

[therube]

I'm not familiar with "Server", but how/where do you get the, see the dialog such as:

<Previous 1 2 3 4 5 ... 6 7 8 9 10 ... 317 Next >

Are you able to "skip" by changing the browsers URL bar?
As in does the URL bar address change depending on the page?
So if it says \\C\TMP\page1.html can you manually change the 1 to 999 to load the 999th page?


BTW, how do you do Server in 1.5 ?
Oh, Third Party Development and Plug-ins.

[luckulucki]

Thank you, that sounded useful, but for me, it looks different in the URL-bar.

first, after getting the result:

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http://192.168.178.250:8018/?search=test

after I clicked on > Next, being on page 1:

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http://192.168.178.250:8018/?search=test&offset=32

after I clicked on > Next, being on page 1:

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http://192.168.178.250:8018/?search=test&offset=64

Numbers, which I can not understand ;-}

[void]

I will consider adding more page options in the HTTP server.

Thank you for the suggestions.
I am planning on open-sourcing the HTTP server plugin.