On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> > >> The problem is the other way around. When wanting to show a short > >> list that should be filtered based on user input. > > > > Why would it matter if the list is filtered or not when it's short? > > Choosing something at the bottom of a 10 item list is likely about as > annoying as simply writing the whole email address manually and ignoring > the <datalist> feature completely.
If 10 items is annoying, then it's not short. > Has any browsers implemented the UI you are suggesting? Is any planning > to? I've no idea. It's incredibly early days in terms of implementations of these features. We are still looking for better ways of implementing maxlength="", which is something like 15 years old now. It'd be a little premature to dismiss something so early on. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'