[jQuery] Re: Best way to autocomplete 2000 items

2008-05-11 Thread MorningZ
What kind of backend are you running? (php, asp, etc) If it was me (and i program in .NET), i'd make an initial call to the DB to grab all records, cache it to disk or memory, then hit the cache with the AJAX calls I do something like this for ~ 1000 records and it behaves really fast :-)

[jQuery] Re: Best way to autocomplete 2000 items

2008-05-10 Thread Jörn Zaefferer
Check out this autocomplete plugin: http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/ The download includes a demo where a PHP file simulates a database with a big dataset. Jörn On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I've got a list of 2