An advantage of checkbox over select (especially multiple select) is that checkbox is pretty much indentical across browsers whereas there are many subtle differences for select.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Sherlock, Ric <[email protected]>wrote: > I too was expecting a select multiple, however I think I prefer the > checkboxes. The issue of selecting all/many items at once might be > alleviated in a similar way to the way it is handled in the J602 package > manager. > > > From: Raul Miller > > Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2010 07:43 > > > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Multiple select might be a better way to go. In part you are seeing > > > experiments. I think there are arguments both ways. At this point for > > > someone getting familiar with the coding requirements it should be > > very > > > little work to try out multiple select. Unless I hear good arguments > > I will > > > probably leave it as is for the first release. > > > > Typical browser implementations of <select multiple allow shift-click > > to select all the items in a range (from the previous selection to the > > location of the shift click), or control-a to select all of them. > > This would be faster than selecting 25 items individually. > > > > That said, selecting items individually in select multiple typically > > requires control-click where regular clicks are sufficient for > > checkboxes. > > > > -- > > Raul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
