Comments on: Contest: Gmail JavaScript Auto-complete Functionality

By: Travis Hoang

Travis Hoang — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:26:46 +0000

dude you are a GOD, my associates asked me if I could implement the gmail thing, i scratched my head thought i give it a shot. Anyways i gave up but u saved me.

I learned a valuble lesson tonight, one i should leave the GOD like task to the gods.

Would you like a job? HAHA

By: aws

aws — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:00:43 +0000

the code would be apreciated. i have to try get something similer implemented in an app thing im working on (web based)

congrats chris *bows to greatness*

By: Alberto

Alberto — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:20:32 +0000

Stumbled here by chance.

I have one online since October 2004 at:
http://www.unitedscripters.com/scripts/dhtml15.html

It uses Binary Search to pick up from a storehouse the items that must appear in the hint scroll down menu. Maybe worth a look. I’m not here to compete.

By: Alexei

Alexei — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:52:00 +0000

I think you can see a very well developed version of this here. quite a bit better than wick
http://developer.ebusiness-apps.com/technologies/webdevelopment/codeandcomponents/ebawebcombov3/media/demos.htm

By: Brian Sweeting » At the crossroads of form and function » Weblog Archive » WICK

Thu, 26 May 2005 22:42:47 +0000

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By: Brian Sweeting » The Accidental Purist » Weblog Archive » WICK

Brian Sweeting » The Accidental Purist » Weblog Archive » WICK — Thu, 19 May 2005 15:18:09 +0000

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By: gally

gally — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:59:28 +0000

i really need this code :/ Plzzz Help me, i not able to create someth workful :/

By: chris holland

chris holland — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

heh. i’ve been meaning to build this, thanks for reminding me 8).

By: chris holland

chris holland — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

i started coding it on my flight to houston this weekend, i’m about 30% there. i think. HEH. not enough hours in a day, work and fun with GF get in the way. this is fun tho. i’ll be abstracting it enough so you could just set a reserved CSS class value to any text input, part of which would contain some identifier I can link to a collection of data as the source for the functionality. So like: input type=”text” class=”someUnrelatedClassValue triggerSmartInput_addressbookData”. I’m basically leveraging the fact that a class attribute may contain several values separated by spaces.

the code would live in a separate .js file you would ideally include at the *bottom* of a document, so your page draws first, and richer UI scripting and event handlers load last. And that’s my generic foolosophy for UI/DHTML scripting triggered by user interaction *after* a page has loaded 8).

oh and it will * definitely * work in all reasonably modern browsers, I’m all about Safari and Mozilla 8)

i hope this doesn’t fall off my radar :o

anyhoo, cheerio! :D

By: chris holland

chris holland — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

w00t! \o/

i’m about 70% there. or something. made good progress last night. i’ve still gotta do many a tweak to matching logic, and implement result selection based on keyboard or mouse input, while accommodating several results. and many things i’m not quite thinking of right now :o