Right guys, all autocomplete plugins and functions that I've found, they only update upon keyup/down, etc. This is fine but the search only begins occurring once the user has stopped typing and if they are typing a phrase or word, the script is unable to instantly start suggesting, etc.
I know this'll be a very simple fix or suggestion for some of you guys, so any help would be greatly appreciated as to how I can convert it to be instantly as a key is pressed.
An example of the desired effect is Google Suggest or Facebook search, a search is fired instantly per key press or change, how do I emulate this?
Thanks!
It depends on how big the space you're searching is and how good your servers are. Facebook search for (I assume people's names) is quick because you're only really searching through a thousand or so contacts. Google is fast because they invest a lot of money in infrastructure and cache a lot of the responses.
On one of my projects I've used this jQuery plugin and it provides excellent performance on cached results. We used it to provide autocomplete functionality on a list of about 6K contacts (names, etc). Is this what you had in mind?