Hey all. This is an idea for a Search toolbar in Browse, submitted in order to generate discussion. It's not acceptable as-is although I wouldn't mind feedback on the code and interface.
The real reason for the patch is that I've been helping with the Wikiserver project - briefly, this is a custom BaseHTTPServer-based web server which serves a 100MB slice of the Spanish Wikipedia, in compressed wikitext form. The server is wrapped into a Browse-based activity bundle. The web server starts when the activity launches, and shuts down when the activity exits. The Browse activity is set up to launch directly into the server's home page. As a next step, we need to be able to search the wiki, so we planned to add an HTML search form to the top of each page that the server returns. But rather than wasting page space and forcing the user to scroll all the way up to execute another search, wouldn't it be better to simply add a search box to the toolbar? This led me to adding a Search toolbar to Browse. And that thought led me to, wouldn't it be better to have this web server running all the time (or at least whenever Browse is running)? In that case, our Wikiserver project could simply be another kind of content bundle, there would be no need for the activity at all. Best, Wade
0001-Add-a-prototypical-Search-toolbar-to-Browse.patch
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