October, 2010 I began a search for a JavaScript framework to provide a conventional structure to my applications. After spending hours (and hours) with JavaScriptMVC, PureMC, KnockOutJS, Sprote Core and even Google’s Web Toolkit nothing felt quite right. I setteled with Ben Naddel’s corMVC mainly because his code reminded me of the framework I would have written if I rolled my own. In fact, I even asked Ben to get corMVC up on GitHub so I could start playing with it and molding it to my needs. But, then I got some Backbone.

Last week I was asked to modify the appearance for results generated by the jQuery Autocomplete plugin for a site WRECKINGBALL was about to launch and discovered I needed to enhance the autocomplete plugin to achieve the desired results.

Problem: The autocomplete plugin only provided a single DIV to style with the class (ac_results). This forced the div to have a fixed height which looked weird when only a few results were returned.

Solution: Modify the jQuery autocomplete plugin to provide end-caps for the results.