Re: More gitweb queries..

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 10:42 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> You know how that stuff works? :) It is a very nice idea for
> small stuff, but it uses a <div> for every pixel/line you draw and
> places this in the background and I expect it to kill your browser if
> you try to draw things like gitk does.
> 
> > Alternatively, you could use a fixed set of little images, a bar "|", a
> > dot "o" and branches like "Y", "7" and "\". Obviously, octopus-merges
> > are very difficult to draw using only those.
> 
> Did you look at gitk? With a all the crossing and long lines, you definitely
> need to draw the lines with colors. Otherwise you will see _nothing_, but
> random characters. :)
> 
> > BTW, I tried searching on gitweb, and I think that found a problem, see:
> > http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi?p=git/git.git;a=search;s=check
> > At the bottom of the page, highlighting of the search term stops and the
> > commits are all the same color.
> 
> Well, you see a list of files which contain the text, not the text
> itself. I can print the filename in red. :)

Best may be to have the server generate a picture ... ?

Ben.


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