The full-screen approach is a good idea. In terms of a scrolling list, one has to wonder what the limit will be in terms of items suggested. Perhaps the last item could be a "more" link?<div><br></div><div>Suggestions based on history is a good idea. There is a feature request as follows:</div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; ">Auto-complete based on history too <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31598" class="extiw" title="bugzilla:31598" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">bugzilla:31598</a> Low</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">under "Remaining in Bugzilla" on Mobile Projects/features:</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features</a></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">It would be good to hear from users how desirable this would be.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Phil</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Brion Vibber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bvibber@wikimedia.org">bvibber@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Tomasz Finc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tfinc@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">tfinc@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As we've continued with our beta (<a href="http://bit.ly/w4E2zn" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/w4E2zn</a>) its becoming<br>
abundantly clear from feedback and our own research that we need to<br>
get better about search. Search is the primary way that people start<br>
their interaction with Wikipedia and we currently do it poor at best<br>
on mobile.<br>
<br>
We've taken the first stabs at it<br>
<br>
* Change the search input box to stretch to full width (horizontal & landscape)<br>
* Lower the amount of search results and increase the font size of<br>
what we do show<br>
* Include spaces in between results to better segment each item<br>
* Add a "+" to refine search term by term (our search data set will<br>
need to get better to make this more awesome)<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I find the purpose and function of the "+" icon to be totally non-obvious on first glance, but Bing and Google both seem to feature similar ones on their mobile search suggestions so this may be becoming popular. Probably just needs some visual & interaction cleanup. :) <br>
<br><br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
I took a look at a lot of mobile sites and one stuck out to me as<br>
really interesting for search.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://bing.com" target="_blank">bing.com</a> (yes i know its microsoft .. lets pay attention to the design<br>
rather then the ideology)<br>
<br>
Go to their site on a mobile (on a mobile) and start typing in text.<br>
Notice how its now stolen your whole screen for search? Its loud but<br>
thats the point. People are searching and moving forward. Not<br>
interacting with the content thats on the screen.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I am quite fond of this style; it's very appropriate for small-screen devices.<br><br>Very similar to this interface is Firefox Mobile's version of desktop Firefox's 'awesomebar' -- when you click into the title/URL bar it immediately pops up a list of bookmarks/frequent sites from history which starts getting filtered/showing up relevant items as you start typing terms or a URL.<br>
<br>Being able to also tap out of the on-screen keyboard and scroll this list can be very helpful as well!<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- brion<br></font></div></div>
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