Comments on: Reverse Autocomplete; The details matter http://ajaxian.com/archives/reverse-autocomplete-the-details-matter Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: zulugrid http://ajaxian.com/archives/reverse-autocomplete-the-details-matter/comment-page-1#comment-265802 zulugrid Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:37:57 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/reverse-autocomplete-the-details-matter#comment-265802 @Remi: Your autocomplete is a perfect example of the limitations that the author outlined above, namely, "ip| nano mp3 player" (where | is the cursor) brings up nothing even though "ipod nano mp3 player" is in your autocomplete list. What I get out of this article is that it'd be nice if the cursor acted somewhat like a wildcard character, so that you can modify the contents of the input box anywhere in what you are typing and still get useful autocomplete results. @Remi: Your autocomplete is a perfect example of the limitations that the author outlined above, namely, “ip| nano mp3 player” (where | is the cursor) brings up nothing even though “ipod nano mp3 player” is in your autocomplete list.

What I get out of this article is that it’d be nice if the cursor acted somewhat like a wildcard character, so that you can modify the contents of the input box anywhere in what you are typing and still get useful autocomplete results.

]]> By: Remi http://ajaxian.com/archives/reverse-autocomplete-the-details-matter/comment-page-1#comment-265796 Remi Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:47:18 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/reverse-autocomplete-the-details-matter#comment-265796 I'm working on Kelkoo (an european shopping engine) and our autocomplete works on both normal and reverse mode. You can have a look at it on : www.kelkoo.co.uk We are using the Autocomplete YUI component with a few tweaks to handle our needs. I’m working on Kelkoo (an european shopping engine) and our autocomplete works on both normal and reverse mode. You can have a look at it on : http://www.kelkoo.co.uk
We are using the Autocomplete YUI component with a few tweaks to handle our needs.

]]> By: Dave Crighton http://ajaxian.com/archives/reverse-autocomplete-the-details-matter/comment-page-1#comment-265791 Dave Crighton Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:02:16 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/reverse-autocomplete-the-details-matter#comment-265791 eclipse autocomplete kinda solves this problem, and you can manually invoke a lookahead with ctrl-space (thats quite common across editors i beleive) perhaps what we need is ctr;-space for the web? eclipse autocomplete kinda solves this problem, and you can manually invoke a lookahead with ctrl-space (thats quite common across editors i beleive) perhaps what we need is ctr;-space for the web?

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