Search engine about pamflet

[mads-hartmann]

In a discussion on the Lift ML about using Pamflet for our documentation the issue of lack of searchable content came up :) It's not a deal breaker as we can just embed a google search bar for now I just wanted to let you know to give you some extra motivation ;)

Haven't convinced the entire Lift community to switch to Pamflet yet but I'm still trying ;)

[n8han]

I lost some motivation to do this when I finished the combined pages feature (e.g. http://pamflet.databinder.net/Combined+Pages.html)

The use case is handled at least as well by the browser text searching features as it would be by any javascript based search index. But there's a big question of how that should be presented so that users think to use it that way.

[mads-hartmann]

Oh yeah - I hadn't thought about that. But you're right, I don't know how to make this option apparent quickly to the users either :)

[n8han]

We can display a search box and button on every page. When you click
search, we load the combined pages and initiate a search-in-page with a
prettier version of this: http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/tips/find.htm

When people figure out what it's doing they'll probably use the
in-browser search, but either way, mission accomplished!

[mads-hartmann]

Sounds acceptable to me ;)

Between this and the TOC it should be enough for people to find what they're looking for IMO