Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Re: reworked web search

On Tue, 27 May 2014 11:06:20 +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote:

> May I ask if (aside from the dumb mistakes) the feature is working as
> expected now? It ought to have removed any delays if the network was
> unable to fetch the search providers icons and made the whole thing
> more robust.

It seems fine, other than not picking up the icon on some occasions.
Actually, I had a thought about that - is it fetching, and not
notifying the frontend when the new icon is ready?

> I do not know if you are aware of the search_url_bar boolean option
> which is supposed to control search behaviour on input to the
> search_web_omni() operation.

Yes, I was aware of that. I think I decided against it due to the
inclusion of a separate search bar.

> The heuristics for deciding if a search term is a url are still a
> little inadequate but I am working on them. This should eventually
> allow us to have a url bar which mostly does the right thing and
> perhaps a simple additional button for "search for this term, do not
> try to interpret as a url"

That sounds like a good minimalist NetSurfy approach.

Chris

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