One of the most frequent usability requests we got at my last company was to make IE browser dropdowns behave more like MS Office dropdown lists, wherein you click a dropdown box and can type the first several letters of an option to jump directly to it (e.g. typing "nor" to get to "North Carolina" rather than "nnnnnn"). For folks just beginning to use productivity apps heavily all day long, esp in forms with several dropdowns, it can get pretty frustrating...
Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Billy Cox Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:31 AM To: 'UI List' Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] 'Select Country' dropdown I cannot understand why a state dropdown would display state abbreviations versus the actual name of the state. One would assume that the average user knows the abbreviation of their own state, but I used to assume that everyone knew that they could TAB through a form. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
