A combo box is a combination of a text box and a drop-down box. You can use it to select an item from a list or type in your own value. Auto-complete boxes are often implemented with these.
- Gabe
Somebody posted this yesterday. I already changed OurDoings registration to use type="email", and I used type="url" a couple places on the site integration page.
- Bruce Lewis
Standard makers seem to always try put the features into HTML. Website makers seem to always try to put the features into JavaScript/ CSS. And not just because of the chicken and egg problem of browsers not yet supporting the element, but also perhaps because UI needs are too specific to define in advance (as soon as you want additional feature X from the UI element -- say, a Calendar...
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- Philipp Lenssen
Well, it's best if a browser knows what is supposed to go into an input area (so it can natively validate it and whatnot) and if it can be styled (so the website author can choose how it looks). To accomplish that it's not an either/or choice, Philipp.
- James Robinson
Well if e.g. the date differentiates between busy and free dates for your AcmeCalendar picker, then the browser would not be able to natively validate the input (unless one could provide a standardized Ajax API URL to the widget handling this stuff?), or would it? So you'd be back to your own JS. Agreed it's not an either-or situation -- one could use the native elements as long as they...
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- Philipp Lenssen
I don't agree with the notion that life on Earth originated on Mars (or any other planet). I think it started and evolved from chemical reactions right here. Still, love this graphic out of context.
- Kamilah Gill
Kamilah: I'm not sure what to believe about where it started but the conditions would have had to been right
- outofmyarse
there is still a chance that it was carried here from other sources (comets from other systems etc). The only thing we can say is that it's here :)
- alphaxion
I need to find a list of UK speak so that I can incorporate it in my daily vernacular here in the States. :)
- Derrick
gotta wonder how many of these are transformers
- vijay
@derrick a fav outburst of mine is "goat molesting, gerbil felcher". If I want to confuse a person, I'll yell "yoda raped your dog". list of some apparently strong profanities removed to stop kols thread from deteriating :)
- alphaxion
Oh my stars, alpha...anything a little less, uh, vulgar? A friend I studied with here went to boarding school in London (originally from Thailand) and he used to call people stupid gits. I always loved that.
- Derrick
there's the modifier of git - get. eg "cheeky gets!". Sorry if I turned the thread blue, I was being a cuntmuffin ;)
- alphaxion
"Sometimes, companies spend fortunes on industrial design teams for decades only to be outdone by a simple student project like this one: a flat fold-out version of the traditional three-prong power cord as thin and mobile as the Apple MacBook Air."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
How is a power cord at all "mobile" like a MacBook Air is?
- Andy Bakun