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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Nicolas Graner <nicolas.graner@universite-paris-saclay.fr>
Cc: 43227@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43227: EWW ignores 'multiple' attribute of 'select'
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 12:17:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8mhao1f.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h7sat1ft.fsf@hypra-xx> (Nicolas Graner's message of "Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:51:02 +0200")

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Nicolas Graner <nicolas.graner@universite-paris-saclay.fr> writes:

> I stand by my suggestion that a multiple select should look similar to a
> list of checkboxes. Maybe it could actually be converted to checkboxes
> at the DOM level, before rendering, and then let the normal checkbox
> code do the job?

I think it would be kinda surprising to render a <select multiple> as a
series of checkboxes: You expect a <select> to be kinda small even if
the number of possible choices is large.

I wondered how Chromium rendered those, and it's:


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(Multiple to the left and singular to the right.)

So it's a widget that's about four lines high and with a scroll bar for
further entries...

Well, I didn't know about popup-menu -- does Emacs have support for this
kind of thing, too?  :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-07 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-05 17:23 bug#43227: EWW ignores 'multiple' attribute of 'select' Nicolas Graner
2020-09-06 23:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-07  8:51   ` Nicolas Graner
2020-09-07 10:17     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-09-07 16:05       ` Drew Adams

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