Question

I have a auto-complete form that fetches result from server, but on slow connection it becomes erratic as data loading takes time. Is there anyway we can prefetch data from ajax source

Answer 1

Just to answer your question, prefetch is possible using synchronous AJAX. Using jQuery, it will be (check syntax since I am on phone).

$.ajax({
     url: "",
     async: false,
     success: function(resp)
     {}
});

This will make sure that your data is loaded before you publish it. But as Sinethera said, this defeats entire purpose of AJAX. If you can pre-fetch the content, that means you know the expected content. Then why not put it as a static list?