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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Darin Adler wrote:
>
> > PS: Getting way off topic, but I must ask. You mention that most Mac and
> > Solaris web browsers render the "Choose your country" control as a massive
> > popup menu. Is there a web browser out there that does something better? (I
> > know that web designers can make a better choice, but I didn't know that web
> > browsers did.) If so, I'd like to know which one so I can check it out!
>
> Konqueror uses a popup list that has full "type start of text to go to the 
> item" support. It seems to handle massive lists in a nice way. Mozilla 
> only handles the first character, which is slightly less useful.

The first-character-only approach does avoid the question of "how do
you start over", however.

Havoc