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[Feature Request] Search machine
It would be good to implement a way to search the website.
I remember reading about it (found it here: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/new-self-hosted-documentation-site/5540/4). @stgraber suggested implementing a google search. For privacy reasons I would advocate for DuckDuckgo or similar instead.
Regarding the difficulty implementing it, could you maybe implement a search box, like https://duckduckgo.com/search_box ? It works with iframe.
Update:
Example for implementation:
Yeah, we may be able to put something like that in the footer or something. As the vast majority of visitors are already coming in from search engines, there's not much benefit from making it super visible at the top.
One idea I had: What about adding a search symbole to the top? This way it is smaller, but still visible.
I don't know though if we can easily add an iframe inside a drop-down "window"/menu :thinking:, this would be the nicest solution imo. But as an alternative we might jump to the search bar instead.
Update: It seems it's possible (example), but the user in the example reported that it was not working in Internet Explorer, but maybe it is working now (Edge is based on Chromium now, I heard).
I have also found this in the Vanilla Framework: https://vanillaframework.io/docs/patterns/search-box
:thinking: But I don't know enough about the Framework to know how it works behind the scenes. Like is further work necessary or does it simply work out the box.
That's likely just a widget that you can use with some kind of search engine on your site. We don't have any such engine so we either need to go to Google or similar, or we need to find something else we could use for that.
Ideally, we'd have some kind of tool we can run against content/ which produces a static search index file of some sort which can then be accessed from Javascript, letting us get a decent search without needing to do anything server-side or relying on 3rd party services. I don't know what solutions already exist for this though.