- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:32:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > I have no idea how the UA would be smart enough to figure out if > filtering makes sense or not based on the set of suggestions. You could do something like: - if there are 7 or fewer suggestions, show them all. - if filtering reduces the list to 1 to 7 suggestions, show those. - if there's some way to prioritise the filtered list, show the 7 best results from the filtered list. - otherwise, show everything. Exactly how the filtering is done can vary, in a way similar to how autocomplete dropdowns in browser location bars have pretty involved heuristics for figuring out how to filter to a few results. > Are you suggesting that filter/no-filter should be selected using CSS? > That seems outside of what CSS currently does anywhere. No, I'm saying it should be done using XBL or its successor. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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