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
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