The Old Joel on Software Forum: Part 5 (of 5)

Employee search

PHP.net did have that kind of thing on their website for their function list once (7-800 functions)

eg.

I typed eg.
and
ereg
eregi

come up (in a javascript way withour page refresh)
just like IDEs text completion

Thomas
Friday, June 18, 2004

wtf u talkin' 'bout?

Friday, June 18, 2004

Thomas: That's not what the article meant. The list you talk about was downloaded with the page. But what if you have 10M entries to search from, or if they're constantly changing?

There's no way to do that in a web client, yet. And if you ask me, I'm not so sure if it's a good idea. You can't write a web based Photoshop or AutoCad. The web apps should be kept very simple and easy to use.

Jonas B.
Friday, June 18, 2004

For ASP.Net Developers there is dbcombo.net http://www.dbcombo.net/Default.aspx it gracefully degrades in Moz but really dances in ie.

K
Friday, June 18, 2004

Hey I was drunk when I wrote that :)

Anyway, the dbcombo is cool, I did not check what are doing, but If I remember right you can load an url into a CSS layer, and if that is right you can create such functionality. But as Joel says it is a bit slow.
But it is a solution for today.

Thomas
Saturday, June 19, 2004