I was inspired by Feross Aboukhadijeh's instant search for YouTube, so I took the latest Etsy API and built an instant search for them. I'd love it if you'd try it out and let me know what you think. It is at http://www.glancely.com/<p>I really hope it doesn't need an explanation, but start typing what you're looking for. I used tags on the listings (among other things) to fuel my suggestions. Click a color to filter on those listings, click to sort on price. Click again to deselect.<p>I've tested on the latest Firefox, Chrome and IE on Windows and Safari on an iPad. You will need JavaScript to run this as it is. I plan to build a no script (and non-instant) version later.<p>If I have a tl;dr from all this, it's "use jQuery" I've rolled AJAX/JavaScript apps by hand before and was really amazed at what jQuery enabled me to do so rapidly.
Really great: I like its speed and layout. The color search is a nice touch. My only complaint is about the quality/quantity of results. When I searched for "pulp art" I only see _3_ results whereas Etsy itself finds 531.
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=pulp+art" rel="nofollow">http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=pulp+art</a>
I'd suggest putting something letting the user know what it does (beyond the little label beside the search box). It's a pretty handy tool, but it doesn't make it clear what it does - which is going to make sharing it a lot harder.
Er.. the hyperlink on the Developed by ETSY API is pointing to some where else. Should ideally be linked to <a href="http://developer.etsy.com" rel="nofollow">http://developer.etsy.com</a> :P
cool, that is fast! And i like that color filter, also.<p>two things after playing around:
1. it's a little inconvenient to hover on the pics to checkout the price every time.
2. where's the navigation, sth like 'next page'?