Re: Enhancing the HTML exporter: Create a new backend or contribute to the upstream

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Orm Finnendahl <orm.finnendahl@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de> writes:

>> It should probably work for single page as well. I do not see why
>> not.
>
>  sure it works. I just question the raison d'etre, when single page
> search is already integrated into webbrowsers. But as always there
> will be people arguing that it is necessary to have a search bar with
> pop up results integrated into the page and of course there is nothing
> wrong with that. I use pagefind myself, but the site I'm working on
> (built with the multipage exporter BTW) currently contains more than
> 400 files where the browser search can't help.

Agree. So, having search functionality probably makes more sense within
ox-publish, where we may also run post-processing to generate search
terms or whatever extra work is needed to make the indexer work.

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