drop-down with popular apis

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The upper-left source selection should be a drop-down that allows the user
to easily select popular APIs. Free form text should still be allowed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by radugrig...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2009 at 3:14

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Also, what the user adds as free text should be remembered for the next 
session. Use
cookies.

Not sure how to provide friendly names. Perhaps if the user writes something 
like
"http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/javadoc/1.6 (GWT1.6)" we use 
GWT1.6 as
a label in the drop-down box?

Also, what about removing stuff from this list? Sounds like we need other issues
after we solve this one.

Original comment by radugrig...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2009 at 3:33

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I'd suggest a nice enhanced combo-box like that google reader uses to select the
folders or subscriptions you want to search in (between the search box and the 
search
button).

The urls for the built-in (i.e. added by us and not the user) javadoc locations
should all be hidden. No point in giving it a nice label if the big, long, ugly 
url
is right beside it.

On the server side (or just in the javascript data) we can have some kind of 
map from
aliases to actual urls. At some distant point in the future we may want to allow
users to give their own commonly used urls aliases.

Original comment by fint...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2009 at 4:10