Searching help.ubuntu.com does not work anymore..

Marko Oreskovic markoresko at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 13:07:24 UTC 2008


Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>> 3. Because many of those sites including google scripts
>> have 2 displaying solutions:
>> - display with no java script
> ...
>> 4. Turning on java script un-selectively on all sites will kill
>> my machine by using too much cpu time.
> 
> Again, I have taken your concern to heart.  Some users will not have
> javascript enabled or available.
> 
> I have sent Matt a patch that will display the help.ubuntu.com header,
> with search box, consistently with and without javascript enabled.
> Hopefully he can apply it soon...
> 
> If you have javascript enabled, your search results will appear within:
>  * https://help.ubuntu.com/search.html page.
> 
> If you do not have javascript enabled, your search will post to a
> Google page, and your search results will be available here, with the
> documentation logo and stylesheet colors.
>  * http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003883529982892832976:e2vwumte3fq

Hi!
It seems that non-JavaScript solution still is not working.
(Not implemented yet)

As I see, That google page would be right temporary solution
untill solution with displaying non-javascript search results
inside help.ubuntu.com is devised.
It doesn`t use any user-side javascript from google.com
,even if it forces me to go back to customized google.

Maybe that page redirection should be implemented as the first
short-time solution to non-JavaScript problem. (Matt?)

For future reference, I think that using JavaScript directly from
*.ubuntu.com should not be the problem for a user.




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