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Re: select1

From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:57:25 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAc0PEVd7eELo-uu9537yLH4ur2uoCn2Ldpa8zQr3iP+i79MUw@mail.gmail.com>
To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
Cc: XForms <public-xformsusers@w3.org>
>
> A select1 on the other hand allows the selection of just one item.
> Initially none may be selected, but once one has been selected, there is
> no mechanism for deselecting it again, and returning to zero. The only
> thing you can do, is create an item with an empty value, even if the
> bound
> value is not required.


> Is this right?
>

Yes in the sense that this is what web browsers do.

No in the sense that this one-way behavior is often not desirable. The
original idea was probably to force the user to make a selection. But for
that, we have `required`. I don't think that XForms should mandate that
things work exactly like in HTML Forms on this point.

(Another example of what not to copy are selection lists in HTML
(`appearance="compact"`): they are usually a bad user interface, and used
very little in practice for that reason.)

-Erik
Received on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 21:57:58 UTC

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