quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
It doesn't change the fact that HTML is a markup language, it simply doesn't do functional stuff like searching. Nyah.
Back in the day when no one used forms, ISINDEX was almost always used for searching. That's why it's named 'INDEX', for search index.
It's defined to parse URLs into a specific format (much like the GET method used by form tags.)
If you generate a bunch of html files with the keywords embedded appropriately in the filenames, you can in fact get a basic search to work this way.
It sucks and no one should ever do it, but I remember one or two sites that actually did search this way a long time ago.
[edited by - cheesegrater on May 12, 2003 5:07:23 PM]