Max Maischein wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just had this wacky idea when looking at the Maypole Search box resp.
> any has_many relationship, and the new fancy incremental Google search
> ("Google Suggest") as displayed here [1] and dissected here [2].
>
> Rationale:
>
> As my databases are supposed to grow big (more than 10 artists, more
> than 10 CDs), displaying the artists resp. CDs in a drop-down list and
> having the user choose from there is stupid from a UI standpoint. Also,
> if the user wants to enter a product code, forcing the user to choose it
> from a drop-down list is stupid too.
>
> Wacky idea:
>
> So my wacky idea is to have Maypole switch to a Google-style incremental
> search if the count of elements is larger than (say) 25 or whatever.
> This will of course need fancy Javascript in the template, a separate
> handler for the incremental search, and separate stringifications for
> all items.
>
> I don't have the time to follow through with this wacky idea, but maybe
> somebody else feels inspired by this, and does the work for me! :-)
>
> Hope this is inspirational,
> -max
>
> [1] Google Suggest http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
> [1a] http://teknikill.net/cpan/
> [2] http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html
>
> See Also:
> [3] LiveSearch at http://blog4.bitflux.ch/wiki/LiveSearch
>
that "google suggests" is pretty cool, thanks for the info
Jay
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