Search in Ubuntu documentation doesn't work [converted from question]

[Sam_]

New appearance, no results.
Type anything, enter or hit search, the input disappears, nothing happens.
e.g.
https://help.ubuntu.com/htdocs/ubuntunew/search.html?cx=003883529982892832976%3Ae2vwumte3fq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=repository&sa=Search

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

you 'are right, there is 404 problem with ubuntu-book.css , that is reason why you don't see correctly search page :)

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Hi,

How did you get to this search page? The correct search page is https://help.ubuntu.com/search.html, and that appears to work correctly.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Thanks Matthew.
#1
the first report was 11/2008 and I've got to this page as described, by using of course the link you provided above.
#2
now (8/2009), I need to activate javascripting for domains of help.ubuntu.com AND google.com
and this appears, e.g. keyword synaptic
https://help.ubuntu.com/search.html?cof=FORID%3A9&cx=003883529982892832976%3Ae2vwumte3fq&ie=UTF-8&q=synaptic&sa=Search

#3
the rest of the story is bug #118730, hence the definition of 'correctly' is argueable.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/118730/comments/17

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Sam, I'm not 100% clear on the meaning of your comments, but I gather that you aren't encountering the problem described by the bug report anymore so I'm closing the bug.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Fine with me Matthew, since we know nothing happens anyway without javascript enabled, thanks for your time.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

help.ubuntu.com/search.html should work fine without javascript enabled, we implemented a workaround for that. I think your comment on the separate bug in relation to javascript is about search.ubuntu.com, which is a different website to that discussed on this bug.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Matthew, did you try it actually?
I'm not able to reproduce what you suggest without javascript.
I insert this in a new tab, (without javascript enabled, I use noscript anyway and allow only selective)
help.ubuntu.com/search.html

Type in search field: synaptic
Result, nothing happens, the word synaptic disappears and site loads again with empty search field.
https://help.ubuntu.com/search.html?cx=003883529982892832976%3Ae2vwumte3fq&ie=UTF-8&q=synaptic&sa=Search

Attached a video of the procedure.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Sam,

Obviously when we implemented the workaround for non-javascript users it was tested. I've tested again now and I see that the workaround doesn't work for help.ubuntu.com/search.html, but that it does work for the other pages on help.ubuntu.com. Since search.html isn't really used as a standalone page, and isn't linked to from anywhere (except for this bug report), I don't think that is a problem. If that is disrupting your workflow you should open a separate bug, as I think we are agreed that this bug is not about that.

Obviously if you know how to fix it for search.html we'll upload a patch to the page.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Closing as per comment 5