peterbe
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Blog: https://www.peterbe.com
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Comment · 4 years ago
Shameless plug if it helps anybody else, like it helped me; http://govspy.peterbe.com/
Comment · 5 years ago
What do you miss about it?
Can you not find what you're looking for?
Comment · 5 years ago
It's pseudo code. The real code is TypeScript React and looks very different and it wouldn't serve the article to take snippets from that code to explain how it works.
Comment · 5 years ago
Getting accessibility right is hard. We very much care about that. One of the strong reasons for why we're using Downshift.
Comment · 5 years ago
> They hi-jacked the browser's `/` key to focus the field, which is something I hate.
You're not the first one to point it out. Please join github.com/mdn/yari to raise your voice. It's an Open Source project after all.
> They should have just had the search field focused automatically
Why? There's a lot of JS to load to make that work. If you never need to do a search (e.g. from a Google search) it would be a potential waste.
> Also, I'm confused, I thought https://mdn.dev/ was the new thing because Mozilla was stepping back from MDN. Is it a fork?
That domain is just an alias we don't currently use. It's still the old MDN from Mozilla. No fork.
Comment · 5 years ago
MDN has 2 search things:
1. client-side only which downloads a complete list of all titles.
2. full-text search on everything with Elasticsearch.
Comment · 5 years ago
Relevancy is the huge game-changer.
MDN uses pageviews analytics to determine was a "popular" age is.
Comment · 5 years ago
(author here) We're still on FlexSearch 0.6 and the new 0.7 is a big refactor. I hope we can upgrade some time.
Comment · 5 years ago
<datalist> is awesome! But I find it works better for short options.
See https://www.peterbe.com/plog/datalist-looks-great-on-mobile-...