Hi Thomas,
thanks for sharing your experiences. The issues you mention can truly be problematic. I
will keep them in mind. But for my use case "jquery.ui.autocomplete" does work
quite well.
[...] and my advice for MediaWiki is, _not_ to go this
way.
I don't think there were considerations about changing MediaWiki's built-in
suggestion feature. That's not what this discussion is about. It's just about a
little (very specific) extension I'm working on. :)
Robert