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