Re: [Phpwiki-talk] RFE - form autocompletion

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

Discussion moved to http://phpwiki.org/AutoCompletion

I'm still waiting for Mircho's answer, but I believe it will work out.
Dan, could you please add a chapter there about your Moonbadger code?
wikilens.org seems to be down very often now, so I couldn't have a look yet.

For the meantime I supported the simple livesearch feature from
http://blog.bitflux.ch/wiki/LiveSearch
to test performance.
The js has to be downloaded seperately (Apache license)


Reini Urban schrieb:
> Dan Frankowski schrieb:
>>> "RFE - Form Autocompletion"
>>> http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html
>> 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!
 >>
 >> 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.


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