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This website looks like possibly the worst way to read George Orwell (or anyone else). Links to individual chapters, text in a narrow (and non-adjustable) colum
by gramie 3y ago
This website looks like possibly the worst way to read George Orwell (or anyone else). Links to individual chapters, text in a narrow (and non-adjustable) column, a search function that doesn't work...
Just buy the book, or borrow it from a library.
- nwithan8 3y agoThe Copyright 2003 footer should tell you everything you need to know about why the website looks the way it does.
- selcuka 3y agoWe had functional search on web sites in 2003 (arguably even better than today), so someone must have broken it after it had been implemented.
- woleium 3y agosolr* of that era was a pain to keep running. I'd guess that's what they used? * https://solr.apache.org/ https://solr.apache.org/
- selcuka 3y agoNo idea, but it looks like a routing issue, it doesn't even hit the search engine. They've probably disabled all dynamic (PHP) code. Fortunately Google search still works well: https://www.google.com/search?q=napoleon+site%3Ageorge-orwell.org https://www.google.com/search?q=napoleon+site%3Ageorge-orwel...