Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread vijay chopra
No offence, but I wish people would stop using the AJAX acronym, Ajax is a dutch football team, the 'new' acronym is just another way of saying look I can use _javascript_ i.e something people have been doing for years /rant (sorry 'AJAX' is one of my pet annoyances) That aside it looks like a

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread Richard Lockwood
Damn - you just beat me to it. Oh - and the first person to mention Web 2.0 needs to look over their shoulder when going home tonight too. ;-) Cheers, Rich. On 10/19/05, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No offence, but I wish people would stop using the AJAX acronym, Ajax is a dutch

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread Graeme Mulvaney
AJAX is a toilet cleaner On 10/19/05, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No offence, but I wish people would stop using the AJAX acronym, Ajax is a dutch football team, the 'new' acronym is just another way of saying look I can use _javascript_ i.e something people have been doing for years

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread James
This doesnt happen with me and I can delete characters and it continues to search. As a side point, current article count is only a day or so old so it lacks BBC content for the moment but this will only increase. The AJAX term is not going anywhere, in fact there is a plethora of books

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread Kosso
It's working fine for me in Firefox, though not in IE7beta I like this alot. Good work. On 10/19/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This doesnt happen with me and I can delete characters and it continuesto search.As a side point, current article count is only a day or so old so itlacks BBC

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread vijay chopra
Works fine in Opera too (just tested). What version of firefox are you using? I'm using 1.0.7, and it works fine, Somone should test it on Firefox 1.5beta. (not that it should stop working)On 19/10/05, Kosso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's working fine for me in Firefox, though not in IE7beta I

RE: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread Charlie Hull
It has been a while since I posted something. For your comments I add in bbcsearch. Out of interest which search backend are you using? Lucene or something homegrown? Have you looked at Xapian? Charlie Lemur Consulting -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread James
Homegrown at the moment. I will take a look at your suggestions.. thank you. Charlie Hull wrote: It has been a while since I posted something. For your comments I add in bbcsearch. Out of interest which search backend are you using? Lucene or something homegrown? Have you looked at

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread Amias Channer
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:26:26 +0100 vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No offence, but I wish people would stop using the AJAX acronym, Ajax is a dutch football team, the 'new' acronym is just another way of saying look I can use javascript i.e something people have been doing for years

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread Graeme Mulvaney
AJAX isnot that big a deal really - it's only doing client side what most of us have been doing on the server for years. What is anoying is when people bandy it around as if it were a language or some kind of endorsment. It's only a development paradigm - nothing more - after you've seen a

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread Jakob Fix
It's not Ajax, it's Inner-Browsing ... http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/viewsource/2003/inner-browsing/index_en.html note the date: 16 May 2003 Ajax is just a new flashy label for something that exists for more than two years. On 19/10/05, Amias Channer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread Robin Berjon
On Oct 19, 2005, at 17:47, Jakob Fix wrote: Ajax is just a new flashy label for something that exists for more than two years. Much more than two years in fact, for instance people doing SVG have been doing that for at least five years, and I'm sure that a bunch of IE-only sites have been

Re: [backstage] Ajax Search

2005-10-19 Thread vijay chopra
Indeed. I fully understand what AJAX is, after all it stands for asynchronous _javascript_ and XML, however as Jakob and Graeme have said, it's just a flashy new label for technology that's been around a long time. For some reason it's acquired a new acronym. I admit I was being facetious when I