v1.7.0

What's Changed

• Minor: Add support for ascending and descending sorting of results in advanced search
• Minor: Don't show a date on results for the default date Jan 1, 1970 on SERP
• Minor: Add date range filters (start date and end date)
• Minor: Add "Declared type" field for Newsroom search
• Minor: Add the ability to put the meta description as the search results excerpts
• Minor: Make variables configurable through parameters numberOfPages: 9 and automaticallyCorrectQuery: false
• Minor: Add a new selector (.page-type-search main [role=search]) that will eventually allow for the replacement of the action="#wb-land" selector and potentially the gc-searchbox ID as well.
• Patch: Fix accessibility issues/concerns with Query suggestions, such as Keyboard navigation and screen reader usability
• Patch: Fix analytics tracking issue with Query suggestions for selecting items with keyboard
• Patch: Fix "search by HTML" issue for File type field in Advanced search
• Patch: Fix coma and slash encoding issues for displaying URL in search results, identified in Weather
• Patch: Adjust actionHistory to have a time-to-live (of 7 days) for searc history entries; improving payload (and Cookies/storage) management
• Patch: Show "No result" message when searching with no query term
• Patch: Show "Error" message when no access token is provided
• Patch: Interchange hardcoded array of months in FR and EN to instead use native JS functions toLocaleDateString
• Patch: Fix accessibility concern by avoiding to have the #wb-land section tag (element with semantic) empty on the page
• Patch: Refactor/relocate some variables (including window.location) and functions simply for code readability and efficiency
• Patch: Improve documentation - readme and the index page of this repository & local site + Remove "in the body of the page" dropdown option in "terms appearing" field in advanced search, which has been doing nothing different than "Anywhere in the page"
• Patch: Fix a 1px glitch with QS on page load, before suggestions get inserted

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7.0