Alright, you convinced me that a scrollable(!) list of check boxes (using overflow scroll) might be better than a multi select. That is if you have at least CSS enabled. Without CSS I would definitely go for a multi-select because a list of 300 checkboxes still sucks more in my opinion.
I guess I could change my change set to add those css styles rather than using a multi-select, or even add some css per default to avoid utterly long lists of checkboxes.
On the other hand, this had been on the list and in review for months now and there are people who would find a multiselect useful apparently. It seems close to impossible to make it right for everybody. It doesn't really seem productive nor motivating to question small changes like this in all details after non trivial amount of work has gone into it by different parties (discussion, several patch-sets, reviews). For now I have abandoned this since I don't even need it anymore in STTL. So may someone else try to improve upon it or not.
Cheers, Daniel
2012/10/1 Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com
Nobody (afaik) is saying that jQuery chosen isn't better than a bunch of checkboxes.
The point is that <select multiple> (without javascript enhancement) is horrible and (imho) unacceptable. And no, it is not because we found situations in which it is not a good idea. It is because it is never a good idea, never.
The solution I'd propose (and Daniel also mentioned this various times here and elsewhere) to output checkboxes as fallback and an interface like "jQuery Chosen" as enhancement.
-- Krinkle
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