[tor-talk] introducing ahmia search

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On 01/10/12 14:32, ahmia wrote:

>> It feels like you're doing the search in the main thread as I
>> type into the search field, as it's blocking the user interface a
>> lot. I suggest you use javascript web workers for this purpose so
>> you can background the searching task onto a new thread. Or just
>> get rid of the whole "search as I type" thing. Gimmicks are fine,
>> unless they actually make the user experience worse.
> 
> JavaScript search is now faster and does not block the user
> interface. This is done now by waiting 1000ms from the very last
> keyup event before laughing the search. Since the web worker cannot
> access the DOM we decided to implement that this way for now. At
> least it works now better.

It does work much better now, but I'm still seeing the browser freeze
occasionally when typing. Although web workers can't access the dom,
my suggestion wouldn't require that. It's just a case of catching
onkey events on the text field in the main gui thread, and then
passing the value of the field to a web worker to perform the
potentially long running process of running a search.

>> Please provide https. At the moment, the search engine can be 
>> trivially MITM'd and script inserted to log searches. Also,
>> please rethink your decision to let Google execute arbitrary code
>> on your pages.
> 
> HTTPS it is now (https://ahmia.fi/)! Furthermore, we have removed
> all Google's code and every resource is now downloaded from
> ahmia.fi - even those twitter news.

Looking much tidier now.

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