>> No, it's easier and less expensive to pull it once and so to speak >> "cache" them in the source code/clientside and perform the >> auto-complete without a server request. Otherwise it will be slower >> and more expensive as you hit the database or your LDAP directory for >> every key-event. > So every time I compose a new mail all my 500 (imagine 1000 or 5000 > contacts!) are downloaded to the client... instead of just my > girlfriends contact via AJAX whom I want to send a mail to. Not very > efficient on slow connections!
Sounds like a case for HTML5 local storage . . . -- Charles Dostale System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com/ 824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265 _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
