Re: svn: /web/php/branches/PROTOTYPE_2010/ css/structure.css css/theme.css index.html js/common.js js/jquery.autocomplete.pack.js
js/search-index-en.js

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Hannes Magnusson < hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 07:53, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: > > > > On 23-Dec-09, at 12:30 PM, Paul Dragoonis wrote: > > > >> I see that you're now trying to do it client-side. I thought we were > doing > >> some server side stuff too. > > > > That was the original plan, but Hannes suggested sending the whole index > to > > the client and it looks to be a winning strategy. It makes the > autocomplete > > very snappy. > > We still need the site search though (docs (content), mailinglists, > changelogs, ..). > Y! probably have JS APIs for it though, so maybe we can skip the PHP > backend entirely. > > Whats missing from the autocomplete is however the basic textual > description of what the function/method does, so we may need to hit > the backend to populate that info as that info could be quite huge. > > I still like the the http://ambitious.ca/php/search-1.png idea. > Would be awesome if we could somehow populate some parts of it from > the client side, and do xhr do populate the larger parts. > > -Hannes > Hey Stewart. As for the scoring, I now see what you're trying to do and how you want to do it. On the point of having a description with each item, that is not a problem. The objects that are returned from the callback functions can store a description. The .css file that comes with the plugin can be modified to have it looking more like. http://ambitious.ca/php/search-1.png After the christmas buzz calms down I'll be able to get my teeth stuck into this! Thanks. Paul Dragoonis.