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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> writes: 
> Having said that, think of the now-standard "Choose your country"
> control that you find on many websites these days, which most Mac and
> Solaris web browsers render as a massive popup menu. Speaking as someone
> who regularly has to fight down to the third or fourth level of cascade
> (on Solaris) or scroll reeaallly slowly (on Mac) to get down to
> "Ireland", navigating around a popup menu with many more menu items than
> will fit on the screen is still more of a navigation nightmare than the
> equivalent list-with-scrollbars would be.

Oh boy - you just gave me Netscape 4 Motif-option-menu flashbacks ;-) 

The cascading menu hack was such an incredibly bad idea... ;-)

Havoc