[Search-l] plain html (no js) search result page has always existed (was Re: Browser Test)

[Balinny]

>> We do and have always offered one, this is where the search input box
>> form submits to if you have javascript disabled.  It has none of the
>> other features and is a crude fallback, but it works and gives you
>> the same results:
>>
>> http://alpha.search.wikia.com/search/search.html?
>> t=2&q=java&page=1&n=10&t=2&x=0&y=0
>>     
Good :-)


Markus Petz wrote:
> tried this, in a few ways.
>
> 1: The URL above works.
>
> 2: With JS off, cookies cleared, page reloaded, when i enter a search term 
> in http://search.wikia.com, it does not fall back to the non-JS page (Opera 
> 8.5 and IE 5)
>   
Confirmed. The form at http://search.wikia.com is different. The input 
name is q2 (a non-recognised
one, it should be q) and the form has no action, only onsubmit (yet 
another validation error).

> 3: When i enter a new search term in the page from the URL above, it 
> results only people search: 
> http://alpha.search.wikia.com/search/search.html?q=java&s=0&n=10&x=23&y=23
>   
The default is a people search (t=1), while one would expect a web 
search (t=2). Moreover the
people search should have a link to convert that into a web search.