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usyless / Derpibooru-Tag-Autocomplete

An alternative tag autocomplete extension for Derpibooru.org using their API
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The built-in form history thing won't get out of the way. Other usability concerns. #1

Open SteegHobland opened 2 months ago

SteegHobland commented 2 months ago

I generally like Firefox's built-in form filling function, so I don't want it generally off. It would be good if it could somehow be made to go away while this extension is actively being used on the Derpibooru search box, though. It's covering up the extension's suggestions.

usyless commented 2 months ago

I will try to add a setting to toggle this in the next few days (it should be possible I believe)

usyless commented 2 months ago

Just got around to checking this, sorry for the delay, it seems I initially misread your issue.

The default firefox form filling should not show when using this extension (I set autocomplete=off on the search field), I wonder why it is doing so on your side.

Is this for the main search field at the top of the site or for the search field at the bottom of the search page? (I don't have my autocomplete enabled for that search field, but I will do so).

SteegHobland commented 2 months ago

I was using the one at the top of the page. I've just tried the one at the bottom, and it doesn't seem to show that issue, or at least it hasn't yet.

Firefox's autofill, on the top one, does at least get out of the way temporarily if I push Esc, but it's back again as soon as I enter another letter, or try to go up or down the list of suggestions.

SteegHobland commented 2 months ago

I also have some other usability concerns, and I hope you don't mind if I just add those on to this thread.

  1. The text of most of the extension's suggestions are showing black on blue on my system. The currently highlighted one shows as white on blue. This makes all but the currently highlighted one difficult to read.

  2. I can move up and down the list using my keyboard cursor keys, but there doesn't seem to be any way (or at least no intuitive way, if I'm missing something?) to actually have the extension complete the search term just using the keyboard. As far as I can tell, it must be clicked with the mouse. Can that be changed? Is it supposed to be able to be entered using the keyboard already, and something's gone wrong?

Also, I'll add, in case it makes a difference, I'm using Firefox 127.0.2 on Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon. I'm not sure what else to add.

usyless commented 2 months ago

The tab key should auto fill the currently highlighted item. I will add this information to the readme.

Thanks for the configuration info! I will give that a go as I am really unsure as to why firefox is showing the auto complete field (might be a bug specific to that version?). And the text colour also shouldn't be that, so I will check it out.

Could you try the extension in a private Window with every other extension disabled, to make sure it's not a different extension of yours messing with it.

usyless commented 2 months ago

Okay the text colour should be fixed with the latest version (v1.1.7, if it is not fixed then it is likely an extension of yours is messing with it), I have also added some basic information on usage to the readme and extension description.