On Jul 19, 2004, at 5:51 PM, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Presumably, it's to automatically submit the form instead of requiring the user to hunt down a "submit" button that might be 100 lines away.
Right, that was the old way. This was not evil. As you note below, it was annoying but understandable.
Since last I really looked, though, somebody has turned it into a nightmarish concoction of evil that magically appears and disappears radio buttons, and removed the auto-submit.
"nightmarish concoction of evil" :-) Well, at least I am not alone. My usual style of course is to be more reserved than that with criticisms, but sure, since you said it first... ;-)
Any objection to ripping it out and replacing it with good old fashioned normal radio buttons?
None from me, but there probably are some user interface subtleties here. What we want to do is allow people to pick exactly 2 items from a list, and to my knowledge, no standard user interface item does exactly that.
not to be evil, but how about this... a javascript that automatically disables the other checkboxes when 2 or more are checked... not siappears them, but merely grays them out?? is that possible to do in a cross-platform way? maybe even a pop up dialog explaining whats goin on (this sounds annoying though)/
Will
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