[thelist] Use of <select> elements for navigation

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 25 21:23:15 CDT 2003


> From: "rudy" <r937 at interlog.com>
[...] 
> what really pisses me off, though, is a jump list without a Go button,
> because you cannot scroll through the list to see what's there without
> risking accidentally going someplace

and that's the danger... if the list of options requires scrolling, 
then it's *way* too many clicks to see the options...

[...]
> and anyhow, semantically, what is a form?  i've locked horns with the
> aardvark over this before (say, where is that guy, anyway? he's, like,

...4,446 messages behind and sinking...

> hardly around any more), but semantically, you would be hard pressed
> to define what the intended purpose of an html form actually is -- but
> let's not go there, okay?

durnit...

that's always a fun debate...


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