Posted By: longzheng | Aug 20th @ 9:13 AM
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section31
section31
OutOfCoffeeException

Hey, its pretty nice but I guess it doesn't scale when millions of people start typing search terms.

But still, it's a cool "nice to have" feature.

RLO
RLO

Very cool indeed.  The only thing I could see improving is when the user backspaces or highlights and removes all characters, the last search remains, you may want to have it clear results at that point.  You may also want to add a button for "New Search" to remove all results and clear the text input box. 

stevo_
stevo_
Human after all

mm not for me, it was slower than hitting the button, I had to wait around 3-4 seconds after I typed for it to catch up.. the closest thing to this is suggested searches that google at least implements (and what most browsers search bar does), where it does query completion for you.

 

I think this would only serve to earn you a blacklist for hammering their service, that or they throttle you so much you end up even slower.

exoteric
exoteric
I : Next<I>

I like your idea. Now extend it to project each seach onto a perspective transform CSS surface, so that you can see all previous searches as series of windows along an elliptic curve.

 

I see 1-2 sec delays but almost there.

JeremyJ
JeremyJ
The pioneers would be appalled!

Not sure I get the point.  Why would you want to send so much useless garbage across the network as I type?  The final words are what you are looking for not everything in between.  Just sounds like a waste of bandwidth.

It is really fast for me. Updates right away. Big Smile Although it does wasted a lot of bandwidth, it is really fun to use. I think you don't need result that fast. I have some suggestions.

 

It would be really nice to see that improvement. Please let me know if you are going to do it or not. Smiley

 

Edit: I changed my mind. Just make the following would be more interactive.

1) Allow mouse hover on suggested terms to update result.

When mouse over, refresh result to that term.

When mouse leave, return result to user typed term.

 

2) Bug Fix.... Please disable mouse click on white space of suggested box. It is redundent and sometimes it triggers before the link is triggered. Thus, LINK click gets ignored and result as a white space click.

 

 

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1) Instead of search right away, no result until press down to view each of the suggested search term.

2) When I press down to select an item in the suggestion box, my search box value don't change (refresh search result only), untill I press Enter. This is important because I was only previewing, no selection yet.

3) The mouse hover on suggestion box will make selection of that item. Left Mouse Click = Enter in my #2.

4) Only do search right away if the search box has the exact same term as in your suggestion box.

5) Because of the above suggestions, a "Textbox" with "CanChange=False" with "Shaded Color Style" is needed to show current search term that shows on the result. This will be placed above your user textbox. A shaded Textbox is used because it is more noticible as the user would attempt to type something in it and realize it is read only.

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If it's quick enough (and it seems to be) and doesn't cost too much at the server side (unknown) then something like this could be useful for getting you results quicker.

 

Why quicker when it's sending extra data? Because you can stop typing words (or even letters for some queries) when you see the results you need. Provided the data can get on screen faster than you can type, it's potentially useful.

 

Same reason find-as-you-type is good in other places, really, but with some extra costs to consider.

 

I'm surprised by how responsive it is.

Oh great, this kick ass.  And it is pretty insane, how did you manage to change the IE Address Bar to the mouse clicked suggested item without even refreshing the page? That's a lot smooth than I expected. I am going to shout it in my Facebook, althought I doubt anyone will look at my post LOL.

 

stevo_
stevo_
Human after all

Uh, he's using an anchor (the # part), its considered part of the document so navigation isn't needed.. pretty much all major ajax view engines use it so you get urls like:

 

myadmin.mydomain.com/#/products/edit/2408-ajax-pencils

I see, that's pretty neat. Didn't thought they could use page bookmark to do the trick. I must be getting rusty not knowing this.

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