Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Montag, 22. September 2008 schrieb Valentin Villenave:
> Hi Reinhold, hi everybody,
>
> I find the new documentation layout very impressive, but there's one
> feature I'm still missing: the integrated search function!

There are many feature that *I* am missing ;-) 

> In the attached html page I have pasted (in a very basic way) a search
> box at the top of the tocframe; this is more or less the kind of
> layout I'd like to see. However, there are a few improvements I can
> suggest, though I don't know how to implement these:
>
> - the search box size and the search-button should be handled by the CSS

I don't know if that's possible in CSS. Probably it is, but I haven't looked 
into it.

> - the text on the search button should be defined by a localized string

That's a simple translation issue in the postprocessing script in 
buildscripts/

> - the search box should provide auto-completion possible results (like
> on Wikipedia)

That's hard, it probably needs AJAX...

> - the search function should show the results in the main "frame" on
> the right, without making the tocframe disappear.

This definitely needs AJAX... And of course it does not work for offline 
browsing.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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