Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:46:08 UTC
Is it possible to have a "suggested searches" thing for the search box? I.e. typing "Fra-" gives "France" as one of the first ones, or something.
I'm guessing you'll have to wait quite a while more on this one.
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Created attachment 9128 [details] The source code for a working example This is a problem made easy by Wikipedia's existing API. I have a working example (modified after mobile.wikipedia.org) at http://rossbender.com/temp/testwiki/ - try it on your mobile phone! See also my personal site's example (a stripped down version): http://rossbender.com/random/wikipedia/ The changes attached are minimal to the already existing page at mobile.wikipedia.org. I'm using that as comparison instead of en.m.wikipedia.org for simplicity's sake only--the changes would be similar there. If you compare the HTML source from mobile.wikipedia.org with the source attached that you will see I have only added 4 lines in the <head> (meta tag for mobile compatibility, 1 link to an external stylesheet, and 2 links to external Javascript files) and 1 line in the <body> (results div). (Note that the wikiapi.php file is only necessary on my server because I cannot do cross-domain XML requests in Javascript. So the wikiapi.php file simply returns the results of the Wikipedia API results.) I personally prefer the results being displayed as part of the page, but adding the same effect to a dropdown box is not difficult using http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/. For my own personal site I had actually started with that but preferred to opt for the more simplistic version. I would be happy to help out with this where necessary. Autocomplete for search engines nowadays is basically a must (read more on my thoughts here: http://rossbender.com/2011/09/25/mobile-wikipedia-search/). Let me know if there's anything more I can do to help. Thanks!
Ross great work! How hard do you think it would be to remove the dependency on jQuery?
I updated the page at http://www.rossbender.com/temp/testwiki/ to be jQuery independent (see the JavaScript file at http://www.rossbender.com/temp/testwiki/main.js compared to the old one: http://www.rossbender.com/temp/testwiki/mainJquery.js ). I removed a few "nice-ities" such as the window automatically scrolling to the top as well as the colored background on a touch event. They wouldn't be super difficult to add back in but I figured those would be more of a site-wide design rather than through the plugin.
This feature will be launching shortly. Ideally this week.
as a beta
Feature is out in beta: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/27/wikimedia-mobile-opt-in-beta/
Feature has been out in production for a bit.
