Re: reworked web search

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:34:59AM +0100, Steve Fryatt wrote:
> On 25 May, Vincent Sanders wrote in message
> <20140525001056.GY27671@kyllikki.org>:
>
> > I have completely reworked the web search functionality in the core of the
> > browser. The new API is much simpler and robust. Currently only two
> > frontends (GTK and Amiga) use the functionality but I hope now that it is
> > so much simpler to use other maintainers might implement it for their
> > frontends.
>
> Is this the search field in the toolbar? For some reason I'd got the idea
> from discussions on here or IRC that it had been deprecated, which is why I
> never bothered to implement it on RISC OS. The main reason for re-writing
> the toolbar code was to make it easier to add stuff like this (and tabs, of
> course).
>
> I'll have another look, time permitting.

This was more a combination of utterly awful code and API previously
coupled with the idea we could simply make the url bar input much
smarter about search without having a separate search input consuming
space in the toolbar.

I just explained in the reply to Chris how that might work. If i can
work out a clean way to do this I will be extending the GTK UI to make
the search input box toggle appearance alongside the search_url_bar
option.

Thus you would be able to type urls and search terms into the single
url bar and simply have it do the right thing (a bit like chrome or
firefox)

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Regards Vincent
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