Aria interface in sidebar

Denizen976

Denizen976

Please work on the UI for Aria as it works in the sidebar.

There is no way to scroll an answer that I have found, aside from trying to click-select-upwards to try to move the display.

In multi-part interactions, or in long answers, it is very hard to see the whole thing.

Is the search engine that Aria references limited to Google Search? When there are highlighted words in the response, hovering over them shows the start of a Google Search URL.

This is probably a late-process addition, and probably not stored in the Aria corpus. If this is just a link to jump into a search engine, let the user customize which search engine Arai provides the search links for.

One method of trying to see a whole answer is to try to copy/paste the last interaction into a new document.

In trying to capture the results of an answer, we can use the (copy) function that shows in the interface. That does not keep the formatting, and does not keep the links.

Aria provides nice formatting in the answers, and links. The formatting (bold, indents, bullets, etc.) makes it much easier to read the content. An example of the formatting:

Granularity: The conceptual model has a broad view, the logical model has a medium level of detail, and the physical model is highly detailed and specific.

In my last attempt at copy/paste using the UI copy button, the content from Aria included some double-asterisks ("**") in the content. There is no following note that explains what the ** means. It's possible that this is an issue with copy/paste of the mark-up used in the UI.

"Granularity**: The conceptual model has a broad view, the logical model has a medium level of detail, and the physical model is highly detailed and specific."

Can there be an option to copy the content in either Rich Text Format, (minimal) HTML format, at least include the links as "open-parenthesis_space-URL-space_close-paren", or at very least, include the Wiki markup?

When links are included in the answer, they are not checked for repeats or essentially being the same as other links. This can be very repetitive. In a recent question to Aria, the answer was good, but the repeated inclusion of the links was a little annoying. In the answer I received, it only needed, at most, four links. Instead, between repeating links and minor variations, it had 28 URLs (see example of list of links, below).

If the output was scrubbed and only: a) similar or essentially similar links were collapsed into a single link, and, b) only the first occurrence of link was kept, it would result in a better output. An alternative would be to c) collect the links as footnotes, and reduce that set. This is similar to what Wikipedia and other reference-ful websites do.

leocg

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