Great work!
It does 95% of what I need, however. Does anybody know an alternative that acts more like Facebook, that is, doesn't require a trigger character (uses capital letters), allows spaces in the name (ie: first and last name) and highlights mentions directly in the textarea?
I've been using jquery.mentionsInput but it requires a trigger and doesn't support multi-word names.
Thanks!
This does allow spaces, but you would have to modify the code to accept capital letter triggers. This currently doesn't support contenteditable div's, so you won't get the highlighting. jQuery UI 1.9 now supports autocomplete on contenteditable divs, so it is possible but this will need to be adapted to work with version 1.9.