http://novemberechoromeodelta.com/20090304-optimising-ajax-search-suggestions Tech Stuff Fri, 21 May 2010 20:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://novemberechoromeodelta.com/20090304-optimising-ajax-search-suggestions/comment-page-1#comment-2527 Slobo Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:19:22 +0000 http://novemberechoromeodelta.com/wordpress/?p=138#comment-2527 Hm, does your initial result set have a chance of being huge? Think X years down the line, will the AJAX be pulling thousands of results as soon as user hits two characters? You may want to just limit number of responses to say 10. Of course this would mean you have to make another request for each letter. To combat this I occasionally use typewatch (http://www.dennydotnet.com/post/TypeWatch-jQuery-Plugin.aspx) or similar to fire ajax requests only when user has paused a bit. YMMV Hm, does your initial result set have a chance of being huge? Think X years down the line, will the AJAX be pulling thousands of results as soon as user hits two characters? You may want to just limit number of responses to say 10.
Of course this would mean you have to make another request for each letter. To combat this I occasionally use typewatch (http://www.dennydotnet.com/post/TypeWatch-jQuery-Plugin.aspx) or similar to fire ajax requests only when user has paused a bit. YMMV

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