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Meeting agenda page text search oddities #4751

Open jariarkko opened 1 year ago

jariarkko commented 1 year ago

Describe the issue

I'm trying to search for a group name, e.g., "ipsecme" or "tvr" in the agenda. I get odd results, a bit depending on the browser and settings.

With Chrome this seems to work always, can search for group names, text in the textual description, area name, etc.

On Firefox looking for any of this works, if the "look for whole words is off". But if it is on ... I can look for things in the description but neither area or group acronym is no longer searchable -- even though they are regular, freestanding, entire words.

On Safari, it is the same as with Firefox, with "begins with" off everything can be found, but with "begins with" set, can't find anything that is a area or group acronym.

Is there something in the HTML that makes the browsers confuse "tvr" or "ipsecme" or "rtg" is not a free-standing word?

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kesara commented 1 year ago

This is a firefox bug, firefox counts text in span and text after that as a single word. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1645990

kesara commented 1 year ago

Meanwhile, we can improve the searchability by adding a space in between <span>area</span> & WG name.

NGPixel commented 1 year ago

As a workaround, you may want to use the agenda search instead of your browser search.