On 2010-04-13 10:23, Ehrann Mehdan wrote:
I saw that the current Opera implementation of the datalist tag and
list attribute is simply not good enough The issue is, that unlike
real world suggest boxes, when typing text, the relevant option isn't
selected (not working as a real suggest box, but rather a text field
and a list box on top of each other)
Opera's implementation of datalist is wrong. Despit it being
implemented to look like a suggest list, though without any of the
necessary suggest list behaviour, this was not how datalist was
originally intended.
It was meant to be a combo box, where the user can either type in their
own value or select a predefined value and it is supposed to look and
behave similarly to a <select>, except that it also allows custom
values.
See these UI design concepts for Google Chrome to see how datalist
should be done.
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dch3zh37_0cf8kc8c4
E.g.
options are: One, Two, Three user types the letter 'T' - option 'Two'
should be selected, user adds 'h' - 'Three' should be selected It
should behave much like the google suggest feature that became a
standard in most web 2.0 sites
There have been other proposals for introducing a suggest list type
feature, but nothing accepted yet.
--
Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
http://lachy.id.au/
http://www.opera.com/
