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Kerrick / Mostly-Harmless

A reddit extension for Google Chrome
http://kerrick.github.com/Mostly-Harmless/
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Implement typeahead suggestions on the subreddit field of the submit form #33

Open Kerrick opened 12 years ago

Kerrick commented 12 years ago

Right now the subreddit box is static, which works if you know the subreddit name you want to submit to. However, implementing a typeahead dropdown would be nice, because it would act more like the form at http://www.reddit.com/submit does.

Kerrick commented 12 years ago

Should I poll http://www.reddit.com/api/search_reddit_names.json or sholud I maintain a list of the X most popular subreddits? The former would give a larger breadth of suggestions, but might seem slower for Mostly Harmless users, and might unnecessarily tax the Reddit API.

/cc @chromakode

chromakode commented 12 years ago

The search_reddit_names API endpoint was created expressly for completing subreddits on the submit page. As long as you abide by the API usage guidelines, I don't think it should impact us more than a regular submit page.

Kerrick commented 12 years ago

I'm going to call this blocked on code.google.com/chromium#20226, because I'd rather implement it using the native HTML5 <datalist> element.

Kerrick commented 11 years ago

Apparently, Chrome now supports the <datalist> element. Removing external dependency block.