On 30/12/13 12:09 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > Before I start off on my rant I just want to say I am not trying to attack > whoever committed this feature originally. Please don't take it personally. > > Can you please please please apply this patch to remove the auto-complete > popup on the front page quick search. This is such an obnoxious use of > javascript and I honestly see no point in it. I understand the intention fine > but, in practice, I find myself having to hit enter 3 times just to do a > search. Every. Single. Time. I've wasted more time pressing enter now than I > ever did using my eyes to manually filter the result list on the next page. > > What's worse is as far as I can tell this is literally the only time > javascript is used in the AUR and we are pulling in two entire libraries for > it. What's the deal?? This cuts even deeper for me because I spent months > trying to convince people in the past that, shock and horror, the web uses > javascript these days and we can take advantage of it. Now it's allowed in > and it's not even being used properly. > > If anyone disagrees with me, please say why, because I'd love to have a > debate on the merits of this feature. Otherwise, can we get this applied as > soon as possible. > > Thanks I laughed when I saw this because I am in the middle of the same argument with Wikipedia: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52812
Even though the search suggestions on the AUR are not the most annoying ones I've seen, the feature is inherently hackish and I support the patch to remove them. The Archweb suggestions for the official repos should be treated symmetrically.
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