Software Developer, Media Nut, and Proud Father of Two

My oh my. I moved my sites to my VPS in August, with this site being among the first. Everything was hunky dory until today, when a plethora of hits came from StumbleUpon.com, a link sharing website. Someone on there decided to share a link to the jQuery Autotab plugin. I don't have an accurate number, but I have several pages worth of Drupal logs showing hits from that site for today and I suspect that it is the cause of my VPS' sluggish behavior. I've enabled caching, so hopefully I won't have any more problems, but if you people do that again, well... I don't know what I'll do. I'm working on getting an entry ready for jQuery Autotab on SourceForge.net, so maybe that's the best route to go.

After receiving some great feedback, I have finally worked my way into updating Autotab with some key fixes and handy new features. Before I release this as a final version, I'd like additional testing and critiques to be done to make v1.1 final and release it to the masses, so please download, test, and critique! Detailed descriptions can be found in the source file.

Update:

Autotab has a new beta release. Read more here. Documentation changes will be forthcoming to this page once 1.1 has been tested and approved, but until I'm happy with the performance, this page will use 1.1b but contain 1.0 documentation.

Autotab is a jQuery plugin that provides auto-tabbing and filtering on text fields in a form. Once the maximum number of characters has been reached within a defined text fields, the focus is automatically set to the defined target of the element. Likewise, clearing out the text field's content by pressing backspace eventually places the focus on the elements previous target.