Tels wrote:
Let's
see... I'm tesing Firefox 1.0 preview (not the latest version I
know). It sounds as if XMLHTTP is failing for some reason. Do services
such as Google complete work on your Firefox.
I don't know. What is Google complete? (google so far works, AFAIK)
A little beta they run that uses some of the same technology as my project.
Very, very cool:
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
Could you
visit the site with ?debug=yes added to the URL and report
what (if anything) is printed on the right of the window? And also what
(again, if anything) is sent to the console. Remember to clear the
cache first to make sure you get the latest version (shift+click
refresh).
Ah, ok. I *thought* I already did shift+click, but apparently not. The
page looks _much_ more complete now.
There are still a few interface things that
aren't implemented, but
they should be rendered struck-through.
Yeah, the life preview works now - very slick! Sorry for the noise!
The only thing that is a bit of a problem is the "pause" that you
experience when you type - e.g. when it renders the preview (I like how
it does this only when I stop typing :) it pauses shortly or freezes.
There is probably not much you can do, but these pauses interrupt my
typing too much - so I think I would disable the life preview - which is
a shame because this is real cool.
I think it is mostly a matter now of optimising the parser and getting the
timings right - there's a variable called BUG_ME_NOT which is the minimum
time between the last keystroke and the preview being updated. Too low and
it interupts the typing, too high and the preview takes a long time to
appear.
At the moment it's 400ms, but I'll experiment with longer timings. I suppose
I could even make it something like 1500 - a second and a half isn't too
long to wait for the preview.
--
Jim