So, here is the thing. Modern browsers (at least Firefox and Chromium, haven't tried the others in a while) have AWESOME autocomplete widgets for their URL bars.
They incorporate multiple data sources (URLs and page titles from history, bookmarks, the search engine's keyword autocompletion, probably more), build statistical models (when I start typing "y" I want to go to Youtube 95% of the time, so suggest that first), don't clobber my paste buffer even though they pre-select some text, and so on. Awesome all around.
Could we PLEASE get this exact same widget with pluggable data sources available as a HTML <input> element or similar?
Every time I build a web app, I feel that the user experience could be so much better if I had such an awesome autocomplete widget available. None of the javascript implementations come even close.
They incorporate multiple data sources (URLs and page titles from history, bookmarks, the search engine's keyword autocompletion, probably more), build statistical models (when I start typing "y" I want to go to Youtube 95% of the time, so suggest that first), don't clobber my paste buffer even though they pre-select some text, and so on. Awesome all around.
Could we PLEASE get this exact same widget with pluggable data sources available as a HTML <input> element or similar?
Every time I build a web app, I feel that the user experience could be so much better if I had such an awesome autocomplete widget available. None of the javascript implementations come even close.