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Re: Implement offline site search?

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"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <PointedEars@web.de> wrote in message 
news:1605051.1mSJY5JTrl@PointedEars.de...
> Robert Crandal wrote:
> >
> There is no Javascript.  But with an ECMAScript implementation such as
> JavaScript you can, in a sufficiently recent Web browser, use an
> implementation of the XMLHttpRequest API.
>

Our computer runs Windows 7 and I believe our main web browser is
Internet Explorer 8.0.   Do you think are Web browser is recent enough?
Is it possibly already equipped with this XMLHttpRequest API that you
mention?

> That API, with sufficient permissions granted, allows you to GET listings 
> of
> (local) files (the format will vary between UAs) and to GET the file
> contents via URIs.  Having the files' content, you can build from that an
> index as an Object instance (preferably with empty prototype chain, or a
> collision-avoiding Map implementation such as JSX:map.js) that ultimately
> maps words (property names) to a list of files that contain them 
> (references
> to Array instances of file names, as property values).  [As an 
> optimization,
> a previous object could also map prefixes to words.]
>
> You can store that index in serialized form in Local Storage and from that
> point forward only use the unserialized form of the index to perform the
> search until the index needs to be updated.
>

Do you know where I can get a very simple example that demonstrates
how to GET listings of local files?  How about a simple example of how to
GET the file contents via URIs??   I understand many programming concepts,
but I'm unfamiliar with this Web API that you mention.

>
> As an alternative, you can use other software to build a script resource
> with the index as an Object instance that you use for searches after you
> loaded that resource from an HTML document.  An example of that can be 
> found
> in SELFHTML's offline search; the code quality thereis is awful, but
> debugging that code could still help.  Probably there are other, better
> implementations as this is not likely to be an uncommon problem.
>

Most of the online documentation for SELFHTML that I found is printed
in the German language, which I can't read, hehe.  I doubt we'd be able to
install software on this computer anyways.   8(

Robert

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Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 01:23 -0700
  Re: Implement offline site search? Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov> - 2013-02-13 09:04 -0500
    Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-13 15:23 +0100
    Re: Implement offline site search? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-02-13 15:33 +0100
  Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-13 15:06 +0100
    Re: Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-17 02:24 -0700
      Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-17 13:18 +0100
        Re: Implement offline site search? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-17 16:14 +0000
        Re: Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-17 11:54 -0700
          Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-17 20:52 +0100
            Re: Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-17 15:10 -0700
              Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-17 23:16 +0100
              Re: Implement offline site search? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-18 09:54 +1100
                Re: Implement offline site search? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-18 10:17 +0000
                Re: Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 11:43 -0700
                Re: Implement offline site search? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-19 06:27 +1100
                Re: Implement offline site search? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-19 06:33 +1100
            Re: Implement offline site search? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-18 12:23 +0000
  Re: Implement offline site search? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-02-13 10:23 -0700
    Re: Implement offline site search? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-02-14 10:56 +0100
      Re: Implement offline site search? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-14 10:20 +0000
        Re: Implement offline site search? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-02-14 11:26 +0100
  Re: Implement offline site search? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2013-02-14 08:07 -0500
  Re: Implement offline site search? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-14 22:47 +0000
  Re: Implement offline site search? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 18:49 -0800

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