>- see footer for list info -< Also, what about the usability? Do they think the users like to have to wait for a 4mb page to load, do they think the users like to search through 100,000 entries in a drop down list to find their username, that certainly defies common sense to me, and I wouldn't even use such a site. I bet you will find all users hate it. Your client needs to think about the users, not themselves. If all usernames begin with "W-U-" then surely the common sense approach is not to require them to type this, just the unique portion afterwards. So on your form you have the W-U- displayed in front of the form field (not inside the form field), and just do your auto complete based on the characters the user types in the form field, or at the very least do a username search when the form is submitted, I bet the users will prefer that than having to find it in a huge drop down list, which I bet takes them quite a while to do.
Russ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Davidson Sent: 29 June 2007 12:55 To: [email protected] Subject: [CF-Dev] AJAX >- see footer for list info -< yeah, i know it's bad, and i have tried to talk them out of it, I am just going to have to do it the best way possible, and let them live with the consequences. I also suggested exactly what you have said here, just a text box, where you can type in, and as you do, the valid users starting with the typed in chars appear. This could work for them, but would be trickey, seeing every single one of their users start with the same 4 chars (W-U-). So, I wouldn't be able to bring the list of users that match back until they had typed in at least 5 chars, and they would see this as "it's not working". don't ask me why all users start with W-U-, it's what I've inherited. Google have somethng similar (which I pointed out to them) at www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en Seems most people use an pre-selction approach. Rich, do you mean gzipping the xml before sending it back to the page, and then unzipping it as part of the return handler ? Thanks for the hints, Tom. Mark, yep, I s*it you not, the exact number is OVER 100,000 ! forgot to put a subject on my original, so putting one now, in case people want to search by subject in archives >Tell them no. > >It's ridiculous to have a drop-down with 100k items - with that many >entries it has to be an textbox. > >If usernames are long, you could consider doing a dynamic lookup after >typing the first three/four characters, and offering the most likely >candidates. >If you can't wait for CF8 (which I believe has a control that will do >this), you'll probably be able to find plenty of examples if you google >for something like "text autocomplete javascript widget" or similar, >otherwise I can write a quick example of it. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- cfdeveloper Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help >-< _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- cfdeveloper Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -<
