- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:40:48 +0700
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:24:52 +0700, David H?s?ther <hasather at gmail.com> wrote: >>> But what if you use a browser with an old list, and your contry isn't >>> listed. Or are you proposing that browsers download a list every time? >> That could happen nowadays also, that a country isn't listed in the >> select control. Indeed, I would think that the browser would keep up >> with a list of available countries. > Yes, this is why it's probably not a good idea to use a select list > for contries, since there is a possibility that your country is not on > the list. Web Forms 2.0 provides a datalist element which can be used to supplement a free-form text input with a list of suggested values. Also, we should not forget that Web Forms 2.0 allows <datalist> and <select> to have a "data" attribute which references an external list of choices. Hosting the list of countries once per website seems like a good solution. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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