Imagine this. You want to search anidb for some anime, view the anime, and then get a link to its page to post it on some forum, etc...
Now there are two possibilities
1) Your search result is not unique, so you get a list of close hits, click on the right one to get to anime page, you get "http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?s ... me&aid=XYZ" in url bar.
2) Your search result is unique, you get straight to anime page, and there's "http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?s ... rch=search" in url bar
The second possibility just sucks to copy/paste somewhere else. The first one is better, but still not as nice as http://anidb.info/aXYZ short link.
Possible solutions to this (easiest to hardest implementation-wise from my point of view):
a) put a link in the short form in anime's info, this way it can be easily copied
b) when search result is only one, don't display anime page directly but redirect to it, this way you can at least copy the long-style url from location bar
c) make short-style url's not redirect to long style (use mod_rewrite instead), and use them for search results and redirection in b) This way there's always short style url in location bar to copy from.
d) extension of c) - make short style url anidb's default when generating links, don't expand them but use mod_rewrite (old url style still working from old bookmarks, external site links etc)
I think that at least a) and b) is simple and could be done easily. b) will also save lots of search time and unambigous links
searching and copying out links to anime easyfication [DONE]
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Suppose you search for NAME, and get only one result so anidb shows the anime instanly, but URL is still http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?s ... rch=search
You copy/paste the url somewhere, and later another anime, which name also includes NAME, gets added. Your copypasted now doesn't link to the anime you wanted, but search result page with two animes instead.
You copy/paste the url somewhere, and later another anime, which name also includes NAME, gets added. Your copypasted now doesn't link to the anime you wanted, but search result page with two animes instead.
Yeah. You could just add AniDB ID with link as for ANN/Animenfo, or make link from title or something (to spare space).pelican wrote:I certainly want the proper redirect on single results or at least display of the aid on the anime page. Getting anime ids can be a bit of a pain with the current facilities.