Hello, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes:
> On 11/11/2016 06:41 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Adam Pribyl <pri...@lowlevel.cz> skribis: >> >>> The GuixSD package page >>> >>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/ >>> >>> is getting somewhat large to load. It is also bit short sighted to >>> list all packages on one html page. Any plans what to with this? >> >> It’s a shame indeed and we should definitely add JS code to browse it. >> There’s already code for that in Guix-Web¹ that could be used as a >> starting point (the web site’s code is in guix-artwork.git²). > > Just my 2¢ as a user who does not yet have the time to contribute: I > typically browse the Web with JavaScript disabled and don’t think > JavaScript should be required without a good reason. I tend to come at this from a similar perspective — though I consider a nice UI to be a "good reason". I tend to err on the side of "graceful degradation", which is why the patch I provided tries to implement a JS-less version first, upon which we could build JS functionality. > Currently the packages page loads somewhat slowly in Netsurf and GNU > Icecat for me (with and without JS) but I can search the packages with > Ctrl+F. Please at least retain some sort of search functionality for > non-JS users (server-side search through a form?). Agreed. I think for now we can retain the one page load for all packages. The downside of having server-side search is that we lose the nice simplicity of having a static web page as we do now. I think the paginated pages approach I propose in my patch would provide a compromise: you select the letter by which your package starts and then you can do C-f. Alternatively, take the risk and load the full page… Alex
