- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:19:55 +0200
- To: Ehrann Mehdan <Ehrann.Mehdan@actimize.com>
- Cc: "public-html-comments@w3.org" <public-html-comments@w3.org>
On 2010-04-13 10:23, Ehrann Mehdan wrote: > I saw that the current Opera implementation of the datalist tag and > list attribute is simply not good enough The issue is, that unlike > real world suggest boxes, when typing text, the relevant option isn't > selected (not working as a real suggest box, but rather a text field > and a list box on top of each other) Opera's implementation of datalist is wrong. Despit it being implemented to look like a suggest list, though without any of the necessary suggest list behaviour, this was not how datalist was originally intended. It was meant to be a combo box, where the user can either type in their own value or select a predefined value and it is supposed to look and behave similarly to a <select>, except that it also allows custom values. See these UI design concepts for Google Chrome to see how datalist should be done. http://docs.google.com/View?id=dch3zh37_0cf8kc8c4 > E.g. > > options are: One, Two, Three user types the letter 'T' - option 'Two' > should be selected, user adds 'h' - 'Three' should be selected It > should behave much like the google suggest feature that became a > standard in most web 2.0 sites There have been other proposals for introducing a suggest list type feature, but nothing accepted yet. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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