Yes, I second that.

Now there are JS practices which can make it work, by updating the 
history of the browser in JS so that back works.

Ludovic

Paul Libbrecht a écrit :
>
> I have one single major con: a search result should be a concrete URL 
> one that works well with the back button.
>
> I much dislike Curriki search which is doing something such and ours 
> doesn't.
> (try the search boxes on http://i2geo.net (ours), and Curriki 
> http://www.curriki.org/ )
>
> The Lucene search can be enhanced to be more performant for this I 
> think (lowering the amount of stored fields), it is known to be able 
> to handle 1000-2000 requests a second.
>
> paul
>
> Le 17-juin-09 à 10:40, Vincent Massol a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think the new search results page (the main search one not the
>> lucene one) has some limitations that could be improved:
>> - it doesn't scale with large number of documents (if you do a search
>> that returns a lot of documents)
>> - it doesn't allow refining your search easily
>> - the information presented take up more vertical space than needed
>> (currently 3 lines instead of one) and thus less results can be
>> presented
>> - it could be reused by other pages which require listing documents
>> such as the SpaceIndex which lists all pages in a given space. It's
>> actually currently reused but as a consequence the SpaceIndex page
>> isn't nice at all and doesn't scale.
>>
>> Would it make sense to:
>> - have a livetable
>> - display all docs by default when you arrive on the search page (ie
>> no filter set)
>> - make the current search field a field bound to the livetable and
>> that filters that table when text is typed inside
>> - remove the need for the spaces combo box since it would be a filter
>> field in the livetable already
>> - same for the wiki field
>>
>> Pros:
>> - all the limitations listed above are resolved
>> - the search becomes live (that's a + compared to other solutions
>> since I haven't seen other apps do this)
>> - it unifies the way we use livetable across XE
>> - if we do this we could also modify the AllDocs page to have the
>> global search field. Basically wherever we display documents we could
>> also include this search field.
>>
>> Main Question:
>> - would the live search be costly? With Lucene search probably not,
>> with the DB search, it could (for ex if document content isn't indexed).
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
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