Re: PROPOSAL FOR A MULTI-COLUMN SELECT ELEMENT WITHIN A FORM FIELD

Daniel W. Connolly wrote:
> 
> In message <32271BDE.52FD@advtech.uswest.com>, "Greg A. Smith" writes:
> >PROPOSAL FOR A MULTI-COLUMN SELECT ELEMENT WITHIN A FORM FIELD
> >
> >One of the areas where HTML Forms have tremendous potential is
> >as platform-independent front-ends to relational database
> >systems.  One thing that has held back this potential is the
> >lack of sufficient elements for displaying multi-column
> >query results in a FORM field's SELECT element.
> 
> Form enhancements are definitely on our "TODO" list:
>         http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Activity
> 
> This is an interestig proposal. We have kicked ideas like
> this around at length, but we never found something that was
> worth the effort of doing. All our ieas seemed overly comples.
> 
> But our ideas involved multicolumn editable text, more like
> a spreadsheet.
> 
> Are you saying all you need is a multicolumn pick list? You
> don't need the text to be editable?
> 
Yes, the MSELECT OPTION rows would not be editable.

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Gregory A. Smith
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gasmith@advtech.uswest.com

Received on Tuesday, 3 September 1996 13:33:56 UTC