Dylan Verheul wrote: > On 8/29/06, Stefan Petre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dylan Verheul wrote: >> >>> Stefan, your plugin also seems to be missing the ability to search on >>> a part of the result that is not at the beginning of the line. >>> >>> Example: if I would search for continents (let's say possible results: >>> North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia), and >>> started typing "am", I'd want both America's to show up. >>> > > 8< snip >8 > > >> In the example you search by country name, not the continent list. So >> the ajax backend searches only there and only the beginning >> > > I understand how the example works. It's just that if you want to have > a real world autocomplete, you should take into account real world > uses. If your backend searches inside the text instead of only the > beginning, and you implement caching, you'll need a javascript search > to imitate the backend. > > You can see an example in my autocompleter. > http://www.dyve.net/jquery?autocomplete > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > Sorry, my vision of an autocompleter is way different the yours. Firefox address bar searches from the beginning, Thundirbird's autocomplete starts from the beginning when you type an E-mail address, Gmail same behavior, etc. etc.. The users are used with this behavior, why should my autocompleter do things in a different way? What real world autocompleter?This is not a search box. Is a suggestion box. If you want a search box build your own backend the way you want and set autofill to false and there you have it.
BTW: you pointed enough to your plugin in this thread. This is not a competition, I will not use it as code reference nor behavior. Is a good thing there are more plugins to choose from, leave it like this. Anyway I would expect a reply with a link to your plugin. Besides, I will include your plugin on my website in other plugins list page. Oh joy. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
