[Search-l] Browser Test

Balinny balinny at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 15:40:21 UTC 2008


Markus Petz wrote:
> >I do agree with removing unnecessary stuff, but for now, the Javascript
>   
>> is pretty necessary as I understand the situation.
>>     
>
> ...then i don't understand the situation. Seems to me like one of these 
> situations where technicians tell me "it has to be like it is and it's 
> going to stay, you will adapt!". Where i clearly see that it is flawed like 
> it is and i know that it can easily be fixed by simplyfication but i have 
> no power whatsoever to change the misery.
> So what does the JS do which makes the site differ from other search 
> engines and is therefore absolutely necessary (and that page should have 
> only the absolute necessary on it)?
Instead of the server providing the results into an html page, you are 
directly quering the search
database via AJAX. The result in JSON is then inserted in the page.
So changing to a show-in-html would mean refactoring several things.



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