Re:Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?
by cesarb on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:21AM
(#17303293)
> Now if I accidentally put the cursor in the wrong place, anything might happen.
Google used to be one of the few websites I whitelisted on my Javascript blocker. I had to remove it from the whitelist, because otherwise its search became unusable: things moving when you scroll over them, URLs magically changing when clicked or even right-clicked, the search page URL actually pointing to a previous search because it used Javascript to submit the new search, etc.
At least Google search still works fine with Javascript disabled. Unfortunately, they also moved Google Maps to the main domain (it used to be in a subdomain), so I have to temporarily whitelist it every time I want to use Google Maps, then remember to remove it again from the whitelist before doing a normal web search.
Google used to be one of the few websites I whitelisted on my Javascript blocker. I had to remove it from the whitelist, because otherwise its search became unusable: things moving when you scroll over them, URLs magically changing when clicked or even right-clicked, the search page URL actually pointing to a previous search because it used Javascript to submit the new search, etc.
At least Google search still works fine with Javascript disabled. Unfortunately, they also moved Google Maps to the main domain (it used to be in a subdomain), so I have to temporarily whitelist it every time I want to use Google Maps, then remember to remove it again from the whitelist before doing a normal web search.