Bosses / Demon's Souls redirect

Summary:

Discussion about the possibility of creating additional parameters in the /bosses/ page to load the correct tab of the interface

Bosses / Demon's Souls redirect

ArdentMarauder 16 Mar 2010 18:10

Hey guys, here's something that has bugged me for a long time.

InnocentHawk came up with a great idea, moving the bosses and demon's souls into one page, using the tabbed interface. It's really slick. So, in order to not break all of the previous links, I made a static redirect from the /demons-souls/ page to the /bosses/ page. What irritated me about this, however, was that nomatter where the redirect came from, the bosses list always came up first. Really, if a user clicks on a link to the /demons-souls/ page, the site should redirect to the /bosses/ page with the demon's souls tab selected (since that's what they clicked on…). I was unable, however, to figure out how to do that.

I have quite a bit of programming experince, some Python and Java, but the majority in lower level languages. Is there a way to peel apart the exact url as it is incomming to the page, and interact with the table?

(Possibly) more clearly, can we somehow peel off the last bit of the link off? Maybe just use the indexes of the tabs for ease of linking? If the exact link had "t=0" open the "bosses (alphebetical)" tab, or "t=1" open the "Demon's souls" tab? The complete url might look something like… "http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/bosses/t=1" to open the "Demon's souls" tab. This would make it quite easy to change the static redirect from the /demons-souls/ page…

Just a thought. If anyone feels like looking into it or whatever, by all means, I'm curious how we could make that work.

Re: Bosses / Demon's Souls redirect

Ojimaru 17 Mar 2010 02:45

I'm having trouble understanding what you're asking. As far as I can tell, the Demons Souls page already has a redirect module attached to it by one Belker since 17 Dec 2009.

Re: Bosses / Demon's Souls redirect

ArdentMarauder 17 Mar 2010 23:50

Right, but it doesn't open the correct tab within the bosses page. If I click on a link to "Demon's souls" I would expect that the information I asked for would be presented. As it stands now, the "bosses" page is presented, with the "bosses (alphebetical)" tab presented.

Re: Bosses / Demon's Souls redirect

Ojimaru 18 Mar 2010 01:58

But the Bosses page also has the full list of Demon's Souls as part of the table.

I'm not trying to disparage you or give you a hard time, just trying to understand what you want.

Re: Bosses / Demon's Souls redirect

Stooge 18 Mar 2010 03:35

I see what he wants. If someone goes to /demon-souls/ then they are looking for the list of demons-souls for the bosses. So, what he means is that he would like that redirect to go to the bosses link, but with the middle tab being the one with the focus. In other words, go to the bosses page, click the middle tab and then imagine that the redirect sent you straight to what you are viewing on the screen.

It can't be done unless the devs add some changes to the YUI involved. Not unless you maybe used the YUI at yahoo directly and then embedded the information, but I am not sure the YUI will let you do it either.

This makes me wonder about using the tabbed view for the upgrade tables on weapons and so forth. I wonder if that would make things easier or better for people…

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