worked for me. cool on the open source too!!

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Sorry about that...

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You built it for you, so it's understandable. I'll just bug you daily with questions while I flesh out the docs. :-)

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auto-complete works in opera 8.5 as well.

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Yeah, but not correctly. I just tried it, and pressing the comma key kills the auto-completed selection. Try it in Firefox and IE and see how it's supposed to work.

I'll work on improving the Opera support.

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And it doesn't work on the second tag in a series.

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i was just hitting tab, didn't think about the comma bit. i was just happy to see something work in an underappreciated browser.

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Okay, Opera's all fixed now. Works perfectly.

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so this is going in the web client interface for tags?

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Both on LiveJournal and FotoBilder (Scrapbook), whereever you can enter tags.

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Hitting comma doesn't autocomplete the tag, just adds a comma and a space at cursor.

Pretty awesome nevertheless.

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What Opera? It works in Opera 8.5, which is all I (hardly) give a shit about, since it's the first one that doesn't have ads all over it.

I used to never care, but now that I can debug it without being insulted with ads, I'll try to keep things working in Opera.

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8.5 (linux) is what I'm running here. Here's a flash cap of it.

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er, misfired: meant to describe that as well.
http://www.openjsan.org/ -- like cpan, but for javascript.

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Yeah, I went to that talk at OSCON. Was excited to see it run by Perl people, too.

I'll try and dump all this code there, once I figure out the scene/rules/packaging requirements.

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Thanks for this. I've been trying to work on an HTML Combo Box (with auto-complete) for a while but haven't been able to come up with anything that functions as good as the Windows Forms combo box. This should be a big help.

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oh, and for your "core.js" you should check out http://prototype.conio.net/ .

there's a large community built around these sorts of frameworky js utilities. see, like http://dojotoolkit.org/ , etc.

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I knew of prototype, and dojo rings a bell, but I don't know either that well.

I imagine I'll be getting a lot more familiar with them soon here, though.

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Looks like the license that was used by Six Apart is the BSD license? THANK YOU! Was afraid there would be some GPL or LGPL nonsense.

Is Six Apart or any of its subsidiary companies looking to hire someone telecommute from New Jersey? :-P

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Sorry, no new telecommuters.

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What limitation are you hitting in Safari? The real-time querying for guessing airline and airport names on FlightAware and web searches on Google Suggest, both of which are different than your demo, don't have a problem with Safari. You should also consider that the great thing about using a drop-down box (rather than autocompleting the form) is that when the amount of results can be significant, you can make more guesses and let the user select the correct one.

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The point of a tag is you're supposed to just know it, and be able to type it easier. A drop-down menu would get in the way, IMO, and you could probably type it quicker than a drop-down would appear, with today's slow browsers. I might add it, but only if you've stopped typing for a second or so.

I just tried Google Suggest and it doesn't work in Safari 1.3 at least. Don't have Tiger at home, it seems, so I'll have to wait and try it out tomorrow.

As far as I know, though, Safari doesn't let you get/set the selection in a text widget. So yeah, a drop-down would be possible, but the "hit comma to accept the automatic selection" wouldn't be possible in Safari.

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Not had time to look yet myself, but I thought that Safari >= 1.3 did have support for selection mangling? Frederico is trying to get help for porting FCKeditor to Safari which would imply that the hooks are there now.

Oh, for more tuits...

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On page text, but not in a text widget I believe. Or you can get the text widget's selection text, but not ask for the selected indexes (from char 5 to 8) no change the selected indexes in a text widget.

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