Re: drop down lists

> to avoid triggering the behaviour, with Internet Explorer you have to 
> use a different method for going through the items (I think alt-arrow 
> instead of plain arrows). The best solution would be fixing Internet 

How do you step to the second item beginning M without triggering
this the auto-submit and without stepping through all 500 items in
the list (people who specify such behaviour also tend to overload
pull down lists)?  As marketing people see this auto-submit as
a usabiliity feature, the inability to step using the first letter
may well be a good counter-argument, because it may be seen as
usability, not accessibility.

> Explorer so its behaviour was more intuitive. In the meantime users 
> just have to learn how the interface works as is.

You can't require a de-focus when using the mouse, as I believe is 
the preferred definition for onChange, as it would then be no
more effort to click a button and the marketing people would complain.

> To stop the behaviour, you can put the go button back (implemented 
> properly to work with or without javascript), instead of triggering 

NB you must provide a button when there is no scripting as a form
consisting of just a pull down list cannot be submitted on any normal
browser without scripting.

Received on Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:35:42 UTC