949996 - Search snippet is unnecessary long and show several times the same word

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2013-12-13 at 12.14.19.png

I did a search for "flex".

The first result is the "flex" article (as expected).

Its snipped was:
The flex CSS property specifies ability of a flex item to alter their dimensions to fill the available…space. Flex items can be stretched to use available space proportional to their flex grow factor or their…their flex shrink factor to prevent overflow.

It is unusually long and has strange … added in the middle (without space after them, which is a typographic error).

The first paragraph of the page is:
The flex CSS property specifies ability of a flex item to alter their dimensions to fill the available space. Flex items can be stretched to use available space proportional to their flex grow factor or their flex shrink factor to prevent overflow.

The problems are:
- If several occurrence of the search term are found, the text snippet shouldn't grow unnecessary long.
- If two text extract overlap they should be merged.
- If there is text after the …, a typographic space should be added after it.

Comment 1

[Jannis Leidel [:jezdez]]

I will look into how to do this with Elasticsearch (since that's what we use for extracting hightlighting text). No promises though.

Comment 2

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Today's snippet, with ElasticSearch 5.x (with *bold* text):

*flex* is a new value added to the CSS display property. Along with inline-*flex* it causes the element that…applies to to become a *flex* container, and the element's children to each become a *flex* item. The items then…then participate in *flex* layout, and all of the properties defined in the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module