[OH-Dev] [issue927] Adjust /search/ to do faceted browsing client-side

[Asheesh Laroia]

New submission from Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>:

A goal of the current implementation is that if you search for "C" you won't 
find "C++". We implement this by a crazy hack of  MySQL REGEX queries. We should 
probably switch this to client-side faceted search, as here in 2014, it's safe 
to assume people have Javascript.

That would also let us remove some of the MySQL-specific query syntax to make 
faceted search at openhatch.org/search/ work nicely.

http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit3/examples/cereals/cereal-characters.html 
is a sample of a nice-seeming faceted browsing library in Javascript.

This would also address a long-standing performance problem that the site has.

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title: Adjust /search/ to do faceted browsing client-side

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