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Re: Hacker News Instant Search

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Post by AlexMuir »

This is the best one yet - I can actually see myself using this. It's hard to know what terms people have used on HN when searching for something. The Ask HN archives are a brilliant resource.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

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Post by mike-cardwell »

Rather than wiping the results and re-inserting the new ones after each character is added it would look better if individual results were pulled out and inserted in the correct location. Some times the results don't change between key presses yet there is still a momentary flash where they're removed and re-added.

It would also be nice if it degraded gracefully for non-js browsers. Like Google search does.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

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Post by mike-cardwell »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #5

Rather than wiping the results and re-inserting the new ones after each character is added it would look better if individual results were pulled out and inserted in the correct location. Some times the results don't change between key presses yet there is still a momentary flash where they're removed and re-added. It would also be nice if it degraded gracefully for non-js browsers. Like Google search does.

Also, you should try to force the browser vertical scroll bar to be on permanently. When typing using Firefox just now the scrollbar kept appearing and disappearing which made the position of various on screen elements jump from side to side as the viewport size changed.

Re: Hacker News Instant Search

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Post by bad_user »

I don't like how the results are refreshed ... it should load the results in a hidden div or something, then swap, and it should put a delta between refreshes ... I would have a second elapsed between 2 result sets displayed.

The indexer doesn't do a very good job, e.g. I searched for "mono" and only 4 results have been shown. Here's the Google index: http://www.google.ro/search?q=mono+site:news.ycombinator.com

Also, the address bar should be refreshed with the query searched because the URI has to be a permalink.

Otherwise, it's awesome.

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