Introduction

AutoSuggest Text Box become more and more popular, specially after AJAX is available. The GUI appearance is kind of "new" but the concept has been around for a long time. I used to work on the AR WebPlus in Remedy ten years ago (around 1996) and did page level of "Auto-complete" with hidden frame. The goal of this demostration is to show how Remote Scripting can be used to build an AutoSuggest in a variety of ways using Mark's Communicator as the mean of communication... Note: the autosuggest part of codes was borrowed from Nicholas C. Zakas's example: http://www.nczonline.net/. I made some modification to hook to my Communicators. And here are some stuff Show details

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Issues to look into:

  Prove AJAX can be turn off
  
    - using IE6.x and go to "Tool|Internet Options...|security|internet (icon)|Custom Level;
    - click at Reset if you can/want
    - select "Disable" on "Run Active Controls and plug-ins" under "Active Controls and plug-ins"
    - now go back to the tree page and search "using AJAX". You will can an error saying 
      "Automation server can't create object" meaning creating XMLHttpRequest object failed.
    - then, change the "using" field to anyone other than AJAX, say "Dynamic Hidden Iframe",
      it should work.
      
  Prove Cookie approach relies on cookie on   
  
    - turn your browser Cookie off 
    - try the serach using "Cookie"
    - then, change the "using" field to anyone other than AJAX, say "Dynamic Hidden Iframe",
      it should work.

Compatibility: IE (6.x, 7.x), FireFox (1.5.0.4), Mozilla/Netscape(7.2), Opera(9.0) were fully tested and worked in XP (v2002. sp2).

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Building an AJAX Application (7): The running AutoSuggest:

Introduction