More Wowhead goodness
by Eliah Hecht 
Feb 12th 2008 at 7:30PM
Once again, Wowhead has come forward with a few nice new features. First up, we now have dynamic searching (pictured), possibly spurred on by the new competition: just start typing and your search results appear right below the search box, summoned by the power of JavaScript. This even works in the newly updated Firefox search plugin. It doesn't get much more convenient than that, although I am partial to my keyword searches.Secondly, we have scads of new filters, one of which fills a request from the last post to see all items purchasable with Badges of Justice. We can also filter for quest rewards from a given zone. Furthermore, filters are now usable on more pages: quest subset pages, zone page quest tabs, and token pages. There is a useful filter for items that are new in patch 2.4. It is also possible now to see what items share a cooldown with a given item (example). Finally, quest difficulty levels have been added to quest pages, showing at what levels the quests are red, orange, yellow, green and grey, and forming a nice pretty rainbow. Now where are my ponies?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PeeWee Feb 12th 2008 9:12PM
Yup, that dynamic searching has been on WOWDB since... way back, at least. So I'd say this is more than "inspired".
But that is how competition works. You learn from your opponents. Adapt and overcome. In my guild we have a saying: "Confident, cocky, lazy, dead."
Sky2042 Feb 12th 2008 10:48PM
Google had it first.
Do you /really/ want to go there?
PeeWee Feb 13th 2008 1:03AM
Sky:
Well, a I wrote a function that worked like that in Visual Basic 1.0, and I was still at High School back then, so it was in the early 1990's. And I wrote similar functions in Turbo Pascal, QBASIC and Ada before that.
That's beside the point, the point is that you _have_ to use your competetor's technology to advance. If you remain stagnant, you will be overrun. Just like the Jaguar MK2, that had the revolutionary disc breaks back in the 50's.
ScytheNoire Feb 12th 2008 10:53PM
my issue with wowhead, while i love it, is that it has a lot of faulty info. their filter is nearly useless. it just doesn't filter properly.
Malgayne Feb 13th 2008 12:56AM
Hey Scythe--can you email me at feedback@wowhead.com with the problems you're having? The filters seem to be working fine on my end, and I want to make sure you're not having troubles needlessly.
Draelar Feb 13th 2008 1:56AM
I agree with Malgayne, it always gives me the information I need. One thing I'd love is a bit more control over the filters through and/or options. I've already had a few times that I wanted to filter on (filter A AND filter B) OR filter C, which isn't possible, at the moment, I think?
Ruby Feb 13th 2008 7:54AM
Something i really like in WoWDB is the embedded 3D Preview. Way better than clicking it separately like in Wowhead.
Corrodias Feb 13th 2008 4:49PM
I have two problems with this. One is that it uses flash instead of java, meaning i can't use the right mouse button to interact with it (and it seems the scrollwheel doesn't work either). The other thing i dislike about it is exactly what you like about it: the fact that it's there on the page of the item, where it shows up and uses resources even if i didn't want to see it. Still, it's a nice system.