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VisualSearch.js: A Rich Search Box for Real Data

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126 pointsjashkenas12 comments

Another impressive release from the DocumentCloud team. Thanks for your excellent contributions to the open source community, they are always useful and appreciated.

All credit for this one goes to @samuelclay -- He's been smoothing the rough corners and stomping on IE bugs for weeks now.

Wow. That's awesome guys!

The place I work for uses crazy stuff like Microsoft Reporting Services, and old old legacy ASP Classic for all their reporting and stats stuff.

I'm slowly moving it forward (when they're not looking) by making everything using nice Javascript libraries out there, and this is definitely one that would be perfect for a solution where lots of data needs to be put into a nice and easy way for a user to find the particular stuff they want.

Again: Nice job! And thank you!!

It's cool, but I can't imagine normal people being able to use this. I struggled with it myself a bit.

Luckily, there are lots of use cases where a 5 minute learning curve is entirely reasonable.

super sexy. i want to use it even though my app doesn't even need it!

Very nice control, but all those dependencies make it pretty hard for me to implement this in any project that isn't already using those libs.

Agreed -- I'd love to see a version that didn't depend on anything more than jQuery, and perhaps not even that. It would make for a great branch.

But I'm afraid this was extracted from our existing app, so we were able to rely on the dependencies being there.

The demo crashes Safari on my iPad :( too heavy for lightweight hardware?

that is very slick. simple enough to ajax/json the facets in as well. might try my hand at a backbone-friendly fork. Thanks for the cool tool!

It's actually built on top of Backbone.js -- each facet is a Backbone.Model. So, no need to fork.

Thank you. Can't wait to implement.

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