Re: RFC - Module for Google-like autocompletion

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.

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Re^2: RFC - Module for Google-like autocompletion by itub (Priest) on Dec 21, 2004 at 18:33 UTC
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! Thank Google for that. I just tried to duplicate the interface, which is to take a string from the "qu" CGI parameter and to return some JavaScript code. I started with a very simple CGI script, but then when I started writing another second one for another form I decided to put the common parts into a module (basically the JavaScript generation).	[reply]

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Re^2: RFC - Module for Google-like autocompletion
by itub (Priest) on Dec 21, 2004 at 18:33 UTC

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!

Thank Google for that. I just tried to duplicate the interface, which is to take a string from the "qu" CGI parameter and to return some JavaScript code.

I started with a very simple CGI script, but then when I started writing another second one for another form I decided to put the common parts into a module (basically the JavaScript generation).

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