Re: [Phpwiki-talk] RFE - form autocompletion

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan Frankowski schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> just detected this, using google suggest:
>>     http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
>>
>> "RFE - Form Autocompletion"
>> http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html
>>
>> We'd need a new xml-rpc function to return simple queries in
>> javascript src: titlesearch, username, plugins, categories, and such.
> 
> 
> This would be awesome.
> 
> We have started to use auto-complete textboxes in a couple places in the 
> as-yet-unreleased MoonBadger version of WikiLens. (The code is done, but 
> our machine is hacked and down until next week or later.) One spot is to 
> add buddies (auto-complete username); another spot is to add pages to a 
> list (auto-complete lists you own, auto-complete any pagename to add to 
> a list). These boxes currently work by generating the complete list 
> server-side and embedding it in the page for the Javascript to use (!!). 
> Obviously, this does not scale as the number of users or pages grows 
> very large.
> 
> By the way, I looked around for auto-complete textboxes, and found 2 I 
> like:
> 
> 1. http://codeproject.com/jscript/jsactb.asp
> Pros:
>  + I know it and like it
>  + Friendly author ("Use it however you like!")
> Cons:
>  + Inappropriate license for a GPL project. (It uses creative commons 
> license, which isn't even for software.)
>  + Only uses a local list in Javascript, not server-side.
>  + Some quirks, like when you click away from it, it doesn't go away.
> 
> 2. http://momche.net/publish/article.php?page=acdropdown
> Pros:
>  + Looks fully featured
>    - has both local and remote modes
>    - drops down with a scrollbox, which acts more the way people would 
> expect-- scrollbar, vanishes when you click away
>  + Friendly author ("Use it however you like!")
> Cons:
>  + I've never actually used it
>  + No license at present. I'm trying to convince the author to release 
> it under a GPL-compatible license (see 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses). 
> Check it out, email the author to choose a GPL-compatible license, so 
> PhpWiki can use it!
> 
> Also, I guess there's a 3. I wrote my own that's in MoonBadger. The 
> advantage is that I got to skip all the confusing licensing issues. The 
> disadvantage is that it is not nearly as fully-featured. I really see it 
> as a placeholder until a better GPL solution comes along.

There's another simple one, without scrolldown as with google, but looks 
and works ok. Apache license.

http://blog.bitflux.ch/wiki/LiveSearch

Not supported:
     * Konqueror
     * Opera
     * Internet Explorer 5.2.3 (Mac)

http://the.taoofmac.com/ uses it also.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/