[Bug 12245] @size on <select> drop-downs is not enough to specify the drop-down maxlength on long options lists with scrollbars

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12245

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #25 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-06-10 23:16:23 UTC ---
This is a presentational issue, and thus out of scope for HTML. It should be
fixed in CSS or the binding language, once we have one. From HTML's point of
view, there's nothing that even guarantees that <select> will _have_ a
drop-down. It could be a dialog (as in Lynx) or a slide-up (as in Mobile
Safari) or an audio prompt (as in speech-based UAs) or it could be some sort of
braille UI or it could be a horizontal sequence of options (as in the Android
keyboard's autocomplete selection widget) or...

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: out of scope

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Received on Friday, 10 June 2011 23:16:31 UTC