Posted by Alessandro Vernet on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Incremental-request-delay-tp3009080p3017563.html

Hi Ralf,

OK, I get it. I don't think you can implement this behavior of waiting
x ms after the last rather than the first keystroke to send an Ajax
request with your own <xxforms:script>, without resorting to huge
hacks :). The reason we implemented it this way is that if users type
continually, if we wait for x ms after the last keystroke, we might
not sent a request for a long time, which might not give the
impression that the field is "incremental enough". I.e. imagine those
two use cases:

1. Auto-translate content of a text area, or auto-rendering of
Markdown: users will have to stop typing to see the result.
2. Auto-save: here again, data won't be saved until after users stop typing.

This is not to say that there are no use cases for waiting until users
are "done" typing. I think the best way would be to implement this
alternate behavior in xforms.js, an trigger it based on a property.

Alex

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Ralf Jung <[hidden email]> wrote:

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