On Apr 1, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Mar 30, 2006, at 06:56, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
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I think it should be allowed. It's useful for dummy items like
"Select your country" which is pre-selected in the dropdown with the
list of countries.
Whoa! It's even interoperably supported in Firefox and Opera.
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/wa10/adhoc/option-selected-disabled.html
It still does not make it good UI. The case is similar to a set of
radio buttons with no checked button.
...
Actually, it's worse than that. In some themes, the only way you can
see that a control is disabled is that its contents are greyed out --
its outline does not change. (This is true of buttons in the Classic
theme in Windows, for example.) So a <select> whose selected item (and
therefore its only visible item) was disabled would look entirely
unusable.
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Matthew Paul Thomas
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