It's incredible that you've coded this up so quickly, and I was surpised this morning to see that your node was not frontpaged (after skimming it last night). Thank you for your efforts, I can't wait to try this module.

What I find most interesting is that while XMLHttpRequest is at the core of this capability, your module actually doesn't need to generate or parse any XML at all!

It would be interesting to see an even more general server-side XMLHttpRequest handler. Not sure how useful that would be -- too simple? But there are definitely other interesting applications for the technology, outside of autocompletion. Save-as-you-type textfields, for one.

In reply to Re: RFC - Module for Google-like autocompletion by ryantate
in thread RFC - Module for Google-like autocompletion by itub

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