I typed SimpleDateFormat into the search field and pressed enter and nothing happens at all. What am I doing wrong? There's no submit button if there is supposed to be. Firefox / Mac.
1. The text field is actually a filterable "select"-type field, not a raw search. It should show you completions that you should click; if you're not seeing any, you might be encountering some JavaScript error somewhere. It does look like keyboard-only navigation is broken/unsupported, though, which seems important to add -- I'm forced to use my mouse to click the option I want.
2. The homepage requires you to choose an artifact/package first. Click "java.base" and then you can find SimpleDateFormat with the "search" field on the subsequent page.
I also tried this as I assumed it was searching all symbols, but it looks like it's only searching artifacts. Once you're into an artifact you get a search within that.
The keyboard navigation on the search doesn't work (pressing enter closes the results, doesn't navigate), and I find a search over artifacts to be too limiting for my use-case, but I guess it's not wrong.
I think I was extra confused because the HN title says it searches "packages" so I assumed that was what it was doing (in a java sense, where a package is the classes inside a library).
thanks! now I understand it, it's fine, but there are definitely some UX things that could be improved to make how it's working obvious from the start.
2. The homepage requires you to choose an artifact/package first. Click "java.base" and then you can find SimpleDateFormat with the "search" field on the subsequent page.