Bad choice of words.

data: "{'term':'" + request.term.replace("'", "\'") + "'}",

I forgot that the \’ is going to be escaped and I’d lose my \ on the data passed over the wire.

@Dave Ward – thank you so much! I would have spent a long time trying to figure this stuff out and in a matter of a couple of hours last night, I was able to implement JQuery UI AutoComplete with a ASMX method:

  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("input#").autocomplete({
    source: function(request, response) {
				$.ajax({
					type: "POST",
					contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
					url: "/json/mdirectory.asmx/MemberNameSearch",
					data: "{'term':'" + request.term.replace("'", "\\'") + "'}",
					dataType: "json",
					success: function(data) {
					    response(data);
					}
				})
		    }
    });
  });

With a to-be-coded server method:

 _
Public Function MemberNameSearch(ByVal term As String) As String()
 
    Dim tmp() As String = {"Doug", "Dave", "Carol", "Jon"}
 
    Return tmp
 
End Function

Thank you!

<!-- Call to non-existant jquery file on Google  --> 
 
 
	if (typeof jQuery === 'undefined'){
		document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
	}
 
 
&lt;!-- Tabs, Tooltip, Scrollable, Overlay, Expose. No jQuery.

Thanks!

Of course, if Google’s CDN were compromised, you’d probably find that out much quicker than if your own hosting was.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by alexanderkahn: @chipkaye If you use a Google-hosted one, users will probably already have a it cached, and thus will have to wait less. http://is.gd/LJPM...

What makes me most uncomfortable about this approach is security. If Google’s servers are ever hacked (improbable, but not impossible), then think about how many websites will be running malicious code. Who knows what kind of information a bad person could grab by reading your cookies, or scraping your screen. For this reason, I would only use this strategy for websites that contain no private user information.

Hacking happens.

John