An HTML5-style "Google Suggest"

This article is an exploration of some HTML5 form features - input, datalist and external data sources - along with some nifty server-side code to help create an intelligent auto-complete form field, a la Google Suggest, in very few lines of code.

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I do believe that it is possibly to copy Google Suggest with new HTML5 elements but your examples unfortunately can't compete with with original GS.
If you mention Google Suggest people will compare you examples with it. And what can I say, maybe GS need "few" lines of code more but it's far greater experience then HTML5-style.
And complexityis not that big issue as there are plenty of JS libraries with Google suggest-like functionality.
Don't understand me wrong, HTML5 is great thing but to succeed it must provide at least comparable experience to today's JS "hacks".

The point not really to duplicate the user interface, but more so how you can solve the problem in a more "semamntic way" using HTML5. Styling and such would be done on top of the widget.

I just curious if input event should be fired in case of Paste, Cut or any other action that can change field?
I started digging this issue while developing a widget with word counter using OUTPUT element.

Update: Ok, I see some improvements here in Opera 9.5 Beta.
Opera 9.5 Beta 1 reacts on pasting and dragging (moving) selected symbols by mouse, but still not handle cut action. So, I think this is just a bug and it should be fixed.

I created small test page on this issue.

Post edited Monday, 3. December 2007, 09:08:09

Yeah, any kind of input has to trigger the event. Please file a bug on the cut issue.

Bug # 302395