Excellent! On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sunday, November 22, 2015, 9:30:49 AM, Lee wrote: > > > For the homepage we could add a search link that opens when the > > user clicks on it... then on the manual we could add the checkboxes > > when the user focuses on the search box. (These are just a quick > > sketch, the design would look more polished when finished) > > Sounds good! > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany > > > > I can also fix the search box not being refilled, too > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In practice I have found some problems with search on freemarker.org: > > > > - I can't search in the API java docs. > > > > - When I search in the Manual, I often also want hits from the API > > JavaDocs, though getting them wouldn't be logical because of the > > structure of the site. > > > > - There's no search box on the Home tab. People my not realize that > > there's on on the Manual tab. > > > > So I think we need a global search box, which by default searches in > > the Manual and in the JavaDocs too. It would be a plus if it has > > "API" and "Manual" check boxes. So that would address all the point > > above. > > > > Where to put the global search box (layout...) is a trickier > > question. Certainly the Contribut-Report-Download thing had to go > > away to give space to it, but instead perhaps we could make them > > more apparent in the side menu (with some icons or whatever). And > > then on the Manual there will be a void in place of search... I > > don't know. Can you figure out something awesome? > > > > - The search box is no re-filled after search, so I can't refine my > > search. > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Daniel Dekany > >
