Sorry about the long threads, I sometimes forget some people use the digest.
I had something very similar to that on my site before I made this extension. The reason I made this guy was because what I had before was 200K. That was just too much for me. I noticed it really slowed down my site load times. I can try to make it more like that one.
I also do not know JS. But I didn't know php before this summer. I just look at my projects as what I want to do, then i learn how to do it. Give me a few months, I may have it down.
But that said, anyone who is interested in helping with this I would love it, -Adam
On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Jim Hu wrote:
... recopied his code yet). What I'd like even better is one that works like the autocomplete at http://wormbase.org, where the results create a dropdown menu over the search box, and you can arrow-key down to select the one you want. I was at there when the wormbase programmers implemented this, and IIRC they had to tinker with the yahoo libraries to get it to act more like the google suggest. I'm not completely sure whether that's what they did in the end. I know they started with some open source js libraries and tweaked them. An important thing was to not have the autocomplete actually fill the search box unless the user actively selected the suggestion. They didn't do that initially and had a major revolt from their users, which is why they have the checkbox to provide an option to turn it off.
I'm bad a js, so I don't know if you can extract the relevant code from the website in a way that's useful.
Jim
On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Adam Meyer wrote: