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Book title entry autocomplete #5

Closed theriex closed 11 years ago

theriex commented 11 years ago

It's pretty natural to just review from the URL when dealing with a video or a movie, but for books it seems more natural to just start entering the title without being at any specific URL. When entering a book title, MyOpenReviews should attempt to do auto-complete and auto-correct in an unobtrusive way to make it easier to create a review. I believe Amazon has an API for this, and if the url gets filled out with a link back then everybody should be happy.

theriex commented 11 years ago

Got this hooked up a while back using a separate div to display candidate URLs for books. That avoids competing with any browser auto-complete for the actual field. Used the same approach for movies. Cannot use the same API for music, it's just not set up for that at the song level and the resulting suggestions are frequently not helpful. Leaving that and other auto-complete functionality for separate issues if needed