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if you cannot load the whole page for any reason, that's a failure of design. use pagination, that has existed since the 90s.
by 38 3y ago
if you cannot load the whole page for any reason, that's a failure of design. use pagination, that has existed since the 90s.
- SuperCuber 3y agodefault ctrl-f will only search through the current page while the site-provided one can search through all content... this is not really an argument against it existing
- 38 3y agoso can a POST form request. why people feel the need to reinvent stuff that's existed for decades is beyond me
- croes 3y agoHow does the user know which search to use? Ctrl-F vs search box with POST. Forcing a request what could be done locally is bad design.
- charonn0 3y agoBy longstanding convention. Ctrl-F is the conventional in-page search combo, while a dedicated search field is the conventional website search engine.
- folmar 3y agoYou can even use the OpenSearch description and move the search field to the browsers'.
- croes 3y agoBut it's about inpage search, it's just a lazy loading page. The dedicated search field is for searching my websites and the result would be a list of my pages that contain the search term. Ctrl-F jumps to the location of the search term on the page I'm already at.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoReminds me of that sort story (Asimov? Seems like him) where someone hits on the genius idea of printing thing out of the computer to read later and, after a few false starts including gigantic billboards which you have to read using sliding ladders, hits on the astounding trick of gluing thin sheets of text into portable stacks joined by one edge.
- 38 3y agoAKA books.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoWell, strictly speaking it's a Holmes-Ginsbook Device, but if you want to be informal about it...
- charcircuit 3y agoWhy paginate when it doesn't make sense? I don't want a pastebin to be spread over multiple pages. I want the text file to show up on one page, but to not cause any performance issues. I want to be able to search for any line in that text file without having to search each page.
- croes 3y agoHow does pagination solve the search problem? The content you can find wih the browser search still doesn't do d the text on another page. A custom search could including a jump to the page.