Herbalist

This is the wiki page for my (tlanthil) Herb:aList, a herb identification site, at http://tinyurl.com/69vapj

I'll post about changes and ideas for changes here.

If you have suggestions, comments, bug reports, etc, you can post here or contact me in-game. If you do want to post here, please consider adding a signature to your comment. Also, please don't edit other people's comments (including mine), just add your own comment on the topic after theirs

If there's interest, I can also post (and update) the output of my parser here, which pretty much says which herbs have an unknown method, which herbs from t3 haven't yet been recorded on the Foraging page (This is where I get as much info as possible from), and which herbs have a thumbnail size pic on that page, but no larger version

Tips:

• If you want to make the text bigger or smaller, your browser should be able to do that. Ctrl+ is probably it, Command+ on mac. Depends on your browser.
• Unsure which category something is? select several (the [+] option). Or you can also do everything-except (which is mostly only relevant for making it 'not green')
• Found something that's incorrect (like colour, stem type, or leaf type)? List it here or /chat tlanthil, and it'll be fixed (only takes a minute or so to make updates like that). If a method or stats are wrong, or you have a better picture, please update the Foraging page, and I'll get it from there automatically :)

Got more tips? Please add them!

Current list of ideas:

• a preferences window: instead of using yes/no for selecting images or not, use a window for this and other options (like saving the thumbnail size, or having stats always visible). most options will require cookies to be saved (apart from the images option)
  • compact filters: so instead of method, leaf type, stem type, etc having spaces between them, have them all close together like in the menus that pop out
  • options to auto-reset the form, e.g. when a sighting is added
• cookies: save preferences to a cookie if the user wants to (as in, the preferences window will attempt to set a cookie if the user says to, otherwise it'll stay with the simple URL stuff)
• translations: this shouldn't be too hard to add, I'd just need people to contribute the translations for everything for other languages
• bitpack the stem/leaf/colours so that any given herb can be several at once. Mostly useful for colours, because then as many colours as needed can be marked as present, and no need to figure out which is colour1 and which is colour2

• a real form: currently there's no HTML form used, but if there was one and it submitted to the same page, stuff like firefox's "add a keyword for this search" could be used as a shortcut - Done. To use it manually, you can use ?name=something
• regexp support: So you could, for example, type in "^chi", so the name has to start with 'chi', and it won't show garlic chives. You can, of course, use more complex regexps if you so desire, but matching the start(^) and end($) of the name are probably the most useful options - Done
• do away with the dropdown of herb names, since typing in a fragment of the name is probably as fast (and more flexible) - Done (unless I get complaints. the code's still there, just deactivated, so I can put it back if people need it)
• apply 'undo' to the name as well (which would apply when the 'direction' changes. As in, typing is going forwards, backspace is going backwards) - Done