Power, or simplicity?

Talking about Brian Dear’s pretty alternative idea for select menus, Ev says you can’t tab to drop-downs. Sounds like someone needs to enable full keyboard access on his Mac.

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Comment by Breyten #
2005-02-19 02:18:17

That’s quite alternative indeed. The country/state selection is also a great use case for an XmlHttpRequest implementation, me thinks. Even less clutter.

Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2005-02-19 18:37:26

I’d be much more inclined to do it as unobtrusive JavaScript: there’s no page-weight to speak of in sending the whole lot along, formatted as <select>s for Lynx and the script-free crowd, with an onload to turn them into something much more friendly.

Are they really this hated and this much of a problem, though? For me, ”select your state” just means tab, O, O, O to get to Oregon.

 
 
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