As described in Development Mailing List this patch adds the following functionality to the search extension
- send AJAX request while typing in search field and show results inside specified element
- ability to use <r:search:form /> globally, not only from pages of type SearchPage?
- <r:search:form /> outputs only form element. added <r:search:form:input /> which outputs AJAX-ified input field.
- any additional attributes in <r:search:form /> and <r:search:form:input /> appear as attributes in appropriate tags.
- added tests for new and modified tags and SearchPage.render method
Reasons for all these modifications described in the Mailing List.