Open singaround opened 5 years ago
I've been wondering if a clientside soluton is feasible. Something local to the songs by chorus/first line page that can be filled in. All we really need is the "find in page" functionality that web browsers have (is there a standard way to invoke that?).
I think the clientside solution would work okay but lacks useful things like typo correction etc.
I've also been wondering if we're good just to have a Google or DuckDuckGo site search box on the site instead - do you think anyone would care about that? DDG hasn't indexed the site yet.
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On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, 13:44 Yasha Jannoo, notifications@github.com wrote:
I've been wondering if a clientside soluton is feasible. Something local to the songs by chorus/first line page that can be filled in. All we really need is the "find in page" functionality that web browsers have (is there a standard way to invoke that?).
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Most handheld devices do typo correction on input, but I imagine you're talking about similar search terms type stuff and I see why that's handy.
I don't think people will care, how backend-y will it look? I know I've seen "search provided by google" stamps on embedded search bars and that it takes you to a google results page.
DuckDuckGo seems really cool, I'd never heard of it. 🦆
For now I've made #27 which you can preview here
...it's okay, but it (a) doesn't deal well with similar words like I'd hoped (no hits for 'fire maringo' for example, despite "fire marengo" being fine. I think I might need to play a bit more with the settings for the Google Custom Search though (b) it'll turn up songs that are in the unfiltered songs list, I think, as they all live in the same namespace. If we go with this approach, I can probably fix that somehow by filtering on some page properties
We should be able to search the songs - don't want to put it in persistent menu bar as that should be straightforwardly for jumping to a song. Possibly at the top of the songs page, and top of the Index page?
It'd be fine to use Google/Bing search or similar if the results are clean. Other options are Algolia or something customs and frobtendy