On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:24:52 +0700, David Håsäther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
But what if you use a browser with an old list, and your contry isn't
listed. Or are you proposing that browsers download a list every time?
That could happen nowadays also, that a country isn't listed in the
select control. Indeed, I would think that the browser would keep up
with a list of available countries.
Yes, this is why it's probably not a good idea to use a select list
for contries, since there is a possibility that your country is not on
the list.
Web Forms 2.0 provides a datalist element which can be used to supplement
a free-form text input with a list of suggested values.
Also, we should not forget that Web Forms 2.0 allows <datalist> and
<select> to have a "data" attribute which references an external list of
choices. Hosting the list of countries once per website seems like a good
solution.
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