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
--Jimbo
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l