Re: Drop down box

of course depending on what environment the app is intended to be used in it may be perfectly ok to rely on the capabilities of the browser of your users. for example, some of the apps i develop are for use on an intranet only, in which case i know that the browser installed on every box is IE5, so i can use features(bugs? =) only available in IE, whereas in other cases you would of course avoid using it, for example on an app that needed to be used via terminal interface (lynx it up!) what you have to be careful of tho is that you don't develop an app intended for intranet or similar closed environment usage, then make it really good, and management (or whoever) decide it would be good to have access to it externally, cause then you may well run into the whole browser copatibility issue anyway! =) my 0.02c At 03:06 AM 3/2/01 -0300, JJeffman wrote:

The event "OnChange" only happens when the user open the drop down list and change ( select ) a new value, this is not "just looking" . I don't like this kind of solution. If I have to put a button on the page I think the selection list must disappear. Why not give the user a interface with less "clicks"? May be we can reach another interface approach which turn it possible. Jayme. -----Mensagem Original----- De: Ron Brogden <rb@islandnet.com> Para: <php-db@lists.php.net> Enviada em: quinta-feira, 1 de março de 2001 18:48 Assunto: Re: [PHP-DB] Drop down box At 06:32 PM 3/1/2001 -0300, you wrote:

The action you want is only available using JavaScript.

True but the action *you* want is most definitely not what many of your *users* are going to want. If you use Javascript this way your site will be un-navigable if Javascript is turned off or the browser does not support it. What's the big deal about a single button click? Also, using Javascript this way means that if a user is just curious what the choices are, you force a refresh without them necessarily wanting one. IMHO of course. Cheers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---

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