Re: "Why would an always displayed list be better than a popup list?"

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On 2/5/02 10:54 AM, "Calum Benson" <calum benson sun com> wrote:

> Well, a listbox requires less user interaction than a popup one, and
> user clicks should be considered "sacred" (to borrow a term from Isaacs
> and Walendowski's "Designing from Both Sides of the Screen").

If all of the items are on screen, then this is true.

If the list box has more items than can fit on screen, and thus has a scroll
bar, and you need to scroll to choose the item, then scrolling to the item
and then selecting it in the list box requires more user interaction than a
choosing an item from a popup menu.

    -- Darin