patlucas
11-09-2006, 10:04 AM
Hi
Here is an idea borrowed from PalmOS that would be useful in Windows.
Suppose you have two HTML files (called File1.htm & File2.htm). File1 conttains the string "<b>Hello World</b> and File 2 contains the string "<b>Beautiful World</b>".
Searching for all HTML files containing the character 'b' using the current Windows search will return both File1 and File2. If you then open them in Internet Explorer, you wil see that only File2 contains a 'b' in "Beautiful World".
The idea is to have a new Document Search where individual apps would register themselves as being able to search their documents. Internet Explorer would regioster itself for searching HTML files. When the above search is performed, only File2 would be returned because Internet Explorer would actually search the files rather that standard Windows Search using a pure character-based method.
The same idea could be used for MP3 or other music files where you could search on title, artist, album, etc.
Just an idea. Let me know what you think.
Patrick
Here is an idea borrowed from PalmOS that would be useful in Windows.
Suppose you have two HTML files (called File1.htm & File2.htm). File1 conttains the string "<b>Hello World</b> and File 2 contains the string "<b>Beautiful World</b>".
Searching for all HTML files containing the character 'b' using the current Windows search will return both File1 and File2. If you then open them in Internet Explorer, you wil see that only File2 contains a 'b' in "Beautiful World".
The idea is to have a new Document Search where individual apps would register themselves as being able to search their documents. Internet Explorer would regioster itself for searching HTML files. When the above search is performed, only File2 would be returned because Internet Explorer would actually search the files rather that standard Windows Search using a pure character-based method.
The same idea could be used for MP3 or other music files where you could search on title, artist, album, etc.
Just an idea. Let me know what you think.
Patrick