On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:18:07 +0200 (CEST), Michael Polak wrote:

> Currently, handlers of pulldown items (as well as pointers to TEXTAREA
> lines, etc.) have to be stored in conventional memory - I have to figure
> out how to store them in XSWAP. And it statical array, because I am too
> lazy  programmer to do everything dynamicaly ;-) So 1000 items means 2000
> KB of DOS memory occoupied by each occurance of pull-down menu... usin 50
> <SELECT> tags on some page is currently very straightforward way to crash
> DOS build of Arachne :-(

> So I am sorry, but more then 1000 items in pulldown menu won't be
> available anytime soon.

 AAAHHH, that explains some of the crashes. ;-)
I have seen *many* pages around the web with over 100 items in <select>


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