Rich Web UI: Search As You Type
by Zef Hemel- Published:December 12th, 2004
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- Category:General
Yesterday I talked a little about rich web UIs. I wasn’t the only one, apparantly, after the release of “Google Suggest”:http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en the whole web-development-involved “blogosphere” is talking about it.
A couple comments I got and found on my post say that we shouldn’t make web applications rich, because if you want richness, you should use a normal client application that runs on the OS, not the browser. In a way I agree with this. Many people seem to get the idea that we should reimplement all applications we use on the desktop today in the webbrowser. That’s probably not a good idea. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t enrich the web-applications we have today. If we want to read our mail in a browser, want to participate in discussion in a browser and manage our websites from a browser, we’d better make the experience as smooth as possible.
Yesterday night I found a nice search-as-you-type component that does about the same thing as Google Suggest:
It’s not as nice looking, but it’s open source and implemented in Javascript and PHP:
It’s called “LiveSearch”:http://blog4.bitflux.ch/wiki/LiveSearch and you find more information “here”:http://blog4.bitflux.ch/wiki/LiveSearch. I wonder if something isn’t too hard on the server. It’s no problem for Google with their multiple-thousand server park, but we don’t all have that luxury.
Another interesting thing that “Cow”:http://cow.neondragon.net pointed me to is “JPSPAN”:http://jpspan.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php. A “framework” to easily call sever-side PHP functions from JavaScript without reloading the page. There’s also a search-as-you-type example there, it’s even uglier than LiveSearch, but of course that’s not the important thing:
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Drew McLellan wrote an article about XMLHttpRequest today over at all in the <head> answering some of your performance questions.
I intend to also write something up in the next couple of days. It seems like you keep beating me to the punch, Zef.
Peter:
I hadn’t even noticed.
That’s weird, because there’s some censoring done. Try typing ‘hent’ it suggests hentia, but not hentai (and yes, hentia is only a wrong-spelled hentai
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