- From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 01:14:55 +1200
On Apr 1, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2006, at 06:56, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > ... >> I think it should be allowed. It's useful for dummy items like >> "Select your country" which is pre-selected in the dropdown with the >> list of countries. > > Whoa! It's even interoperably supported in Firefox and Opera. > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/wa10/adhoc/option-selected-disabled.html > > It still does not make it good UI. The case is similar to a set of > radio buttons with no checked button. > ... Actually, it's worse than that. In some themes, the only way you can see that a control is disabled is that its contents are greyed out -- its outline does not change. (This is true of buttons in the Classic theme in Windows, for example.) So a <select> whose selected item (and therefore its only visible item) was disabled would look entirely unusable. -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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