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Google Suggest Dissected

Posted by michael on from the rated-r-for-responsive dept.

sammykrupa writes "Google suggest Javascript code dissected and rewritten for all of you web developers out there. Cool piece of web reverse-engineering!" Joel Spolsky astutely notes that this will raise the bar in terms of how people expect the "internets" to work.

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  1. And for those who would like to see it... by Vladan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's what he was talking about:

    Google with Auto Complete on Just start typing in the search field.

    It's a beta feature.

  2. Firefox users can try the plugin by hobo2k · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know how happy google is about this, but there is already a FF extension to put suggest in the toolbar. Great plugin and also amazing how fast somebody implemented it!

  3. Re:XmlHttpRequest is cool by Gopal.V · · Score: 5, Informative
    Read History of XMLHttpRequest.

    Microsoft implemented it as an Active-X object you could invoke from Javascript - Mozilla implemented it as a native Javascript object. Microsoft calls it "Msxml2.XMLHTTP" or "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" depending on which version of IE you are running - Mozillah has a cleaner "XMLHttpRequest" naming (soon to be in the standards I guess).

    So on IE it needs ActiveX enabled to use it . Mozilla version is therfore much safer to use and easier to program with in connection :)

    Visit simple example for a quick and dirty example :)

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