Last modified: 2014-06-17 17:02:41 UTC
(Split from bug 45051.) I have no idea what this is, but it's probably disabled entirely and unknown of for a reason. Quoting from bug 45051: >> By its name, it looks like this could be code to automatically >> expand the search box when clicked or when the search sting >> exceeds a certain length. Just guessing, though. > > When focused. It's important for search usability for the search > input to be large enough to accommodate practically anything the > user would input into there.
According to bug 27647, this feature is currently broken.
So what should be ideally done?Delete the expandablesearch.css and .js files?Can you shed some light on it ?
I honestly don't know what to do here. CC-ing Waldir and Dantman (whose comments I cited in comment 0) for input :)
Ideally it would be good to fix it. Good amounts of space in the search input is usually an important usability point.
Change 84195 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński: Delete the ext.vector.expandableSearch module https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/84195
Change 84195 merged by jenkins-bot: Delete the ext.vector.expandableSearch module https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/84195
The component has been removed, so I'm closing this. There's no reason it can't be reimplemented properly in core in the future, though.
