Hi,

> To summarize the current situation of auto-completion, we do now have:
>
> * autocompletion of tags from Victor, based on a JQuery plugins, backed
> from tags tables
> * autocompletion in BibEdit from Marko, based on custom javascript,
> backed by dynamically allocated knowledge bases
> * autocompletion in search engine from Roman, based on ???, backed on
> bibconvert keywords (from MARC?)
>
> and I would like to implement WebSubmit drop-down menus based on JQuery,
> backed by knowledge bases.
>
> So shall we uniform our effor on a common solution (at least for the
> front-end part) in all using the same javascript code?
>
> I just noticed tha autocompletion got official into JQuery UI (1.8.x):
>
> <http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/>
>
> which might have a good chance to have robust support from the community
> in the future.
>
> What do you think about it?

We discussed around noon that Roman will describe the API that his
system is using. The back-end is currently Java, but we may want to
interface it with Python in all the modules that you mentioned.

Yours,
Marko

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