"Search web" not working

[humdinger]

This is hrev39660.

In Web+ you can mark a word and right-click it to get a "Search web" in the context menu. This item should open the search site specified in Web+'s settings with the selected word, I guess. It doesn't.

Also, just like ALT+H to open the start page, a shortcut for the websearch would come in handy. We should reserve ALT+S for a future saving function. Maybe ALT+K? I think Firefox has this shortcut.

[leavengood]

I've fixed the "Search web" context menu for now in Web+ revision 567, but like the URL bar search we still need proper search engine management and OpenSearch.org support, instead of hard-coding Google.

As for the shortcut, I really don't know if it is needed with the URL bar search feature. I know that in Firefox with it's search field and Chrome with it's URL bar search I rarely open google.com directly. In fact until now in Web+ I did not even use the feature where you can have new tabs go to the search site. I might even remove that at some point.

I'll leave this ticket open for now to wait for your comments Humdinger. Also I've been working on some of your tickets at ​http://webpositive.haiku-os.org (copied from mmlr's server.) Have you been getting email notifications?

[humdinger]

I don't think I got notifications of the old Web+ tickets, but I see your commit messages. Great stuff, I hope we'll see a new Web+ package soon. :)

I agree to close this ticket (actually I'll do that right now). A search directly from the search bar sounds much better anyway, though I haven't seen it yet, of course. Now, if you also find a nice way to also include search through the bookmarks (tile,url, keywords) there, it'd be perfect! Of course, having web and bookmark search, plus history and regular URL input there is a little challenge in GUI design, I guess...
Great to see you working on Web+ again a bit!