65876 - local search should support multiple criteria

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect, P2)

Description

[Alec Flett]

we need to fix local search to support multiple criteria, so we can do cooler
queries for cooler UIs

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

moving to moz 1.0 for now

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

this no longer blocks history because I've found it much faster to make history
understand find: url's... and then I expanded the sequence from there.

The problem with the (current) local search service is that it requests all urls
from a given datasource, and then picks out the ones that match. it's much
cheaper to make the datasource itself do the search..

I think what I will do is add the capability to break down find URIs into search
terms, and make a custom enumerator that understands these parsed terms.
Eventually, other datasources could:
1) use the find URI parsing mechanism, and do their own internal search
2) use the find URI parsing mechanism, and then use the searching enumerator to
search themselves.

Comment 3

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Maybe a performance gain, but not critical. Pushing out to mozilla1.2

Comment 4

[Alec Flett]

not mine..

Comment 5

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

What's this about? can anyone enlighten me?

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

if alecf isn't going to fix this, nobody is...

Comment 7

[Alec Flett]

then mark it WONTFIX, not WORKSFORME