Speaking of Macs, select boxes seem to produce an amount
of white space above the selected item equal to the number
of items below the selected line - at least this seems to
be the case in NS3,4 and IE4 for Mac. It occurs both with
select and CFselect forms.
Is this a Mac 'feature', or is it the browser or is it my
code??
Tristram Charnley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Truman Esmond III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 March 2001 17:26
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: How to fast big query result on browser
>
>
> TwoSelectsRelated may get you started, but it is JavaScript - with 21k
> items, you're going to run into a lot of issues; your HTML
> file will be huge
> and the JS is going to pinch a lot of memory and rendering
> processes for the
> browser... not going to be a fun UI no matter how you slice
> it on the client
> side. I'd consider pagination or providing a drill-down
> mechanism (if you
> have relational data as John mentioned) if not a search or
> index function by
> the first letter or something...
> BTW, I'll guarantee that a select or related select with that
> many options
> WILL blow up on a sMacintosh.
> T.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wilker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:41 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: How to fast big query result on browser
>
>
> I agree with Jason. I think many users would walk away from a
> site that
> asked them to use a selectbox with 21k items in it. Just
> think how long that
> would take just to read each option.... Crikey!!
>
> Are there any relationships with any other data? One thing to
> try if it's
> feasible is group the 21k items to another group of items,
> sort of like:
>
> Project Module
> Module
> Module
> Module
> Module
>
> Project Module
> Module
> etc...
>
> That way the user first selects a "Project" which then limits the next
> selectbox to just those items that belong under that
> particular project.
>
> I don't know if your data is or can be arranged like that but
> it's one idea.
> If so there is a handy tag, I've used a few times in the DevEx. called
> TwoSelectsRelated.. Very handy.
>
> J.
>
>
>
> John Wilker
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Aden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:16 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: How to fast big query result on browser
>
>
> George,
>
> How is anyone going to use a select box with 21,000 options?
> Don't you think
> that's too many for someone to look through when making a
> selection in a
> select box?
>
> You should try getting some parameters from the user first
> and pass those to
> the query so you don't have so many options in one box. Have
> them enter the
> category, or maybe some sort of alphabetical search, but do
> something that
> will narrow down the query results. IMHO, you would never
> want to have more
> than 500 options in a select box (as an absolute limit).
>
> Jason
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: George Dong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:52 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Re: How to fast big query result on browser
> >
> >
> > about 21,000 options
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hayes, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:32 AM
> > Subject: RE: How to fast big query result on browser
> >
> >
> > > How many options are you putting in your select box?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: George Dong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:30 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: How to fast big query result on browser
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > > I have one problem, I made a select box, the option items
> come from a
> > query
> > > result, due to 20, 000 records, so the browser is very
> slow for that
> > > template, even I already cached query on server.
> > >
> > > If any one has a good sulotion?
> > >
> > > thx.
> > >
> >
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