Re: [amsat-bb] Website Request

[Emily Clarke <w0eec@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had to rush out the door to take my housemate to the train, so my 
previous post neglected to point out that the reason we can't use # 
is that this is used for on-page connections.  In the new design each 
satellite has it's own page.  This changes from having one huge page 
for all satellites to one page per satellite.

There are several advantages to using the NORAD ID number, the first 
being that it is unique and unambiguous.  It's also tight and easily 
indexed in the database, thus providing a compact and fast 
index.  This provides a slight performance improvement.

I'm sure there will be some who will complain about breaking the 
status page into separate pages, but the fact of the matter is that 
the big page has many disadvantages.  It  doesn't really tell the 
story, and takes forever to load if someone is on a dial-up 
connection.  From a user perspective why load all the data for all 
the satellites if all you are interested in is a single 
satellite.  It makes sense to generate a single page for a single satellite.

This doesn't mean we won't have a big page - we will.  Once the data 
is in the database its just another simple transformation of the data 
to produce the "one page" list.  Since we will have so much more 
information, we will have to abbreviate what we put out.

73,

Emily



At 07:19 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>That's fine - a good logical solution. If you look at the source of
>http://www.qrz.com/detail/HB9DRV you'll see that I can extract the data from
>the HTML although it's a bit of a struggle. If you can design a clearly
>logical page similar to QRZ.com's approach or even better have a
>corresponding page with just raw data (tag and value) that would be great.
>
>If you want to shout at me offline please feel free.
>
>Simon Brown
>---
>www.hb9drv.ch www.laax.ch
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Emily Clarke" <w0eec@amsat.org>
>
>
>>
>>This won't be the case.  It will most likely be something more like
>>http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/status.php?n=28375
>>
>>where n= the norad ID for a satellite.  This eliminates confusion with
>>things like #AO-51 vs AO51 vs Echo.
>



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