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Would be cool to have an example of this running on websockets and get rid of the request/response latency that most autocompletes have. Keep the socket open when the text field is focused and you should be able to cut down the response time even further without that overhead.

Considering chrome and firefox are switching off websockets until they resolve the security issues that wouldn't be very viable. I guess you could fallback to flash sockets or long polling.

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