> This is not acceptable because there is _no value_ in tapping on a
dropdown
> arrow for a list with only one item that is already being displayed. This
> is a wasted tap, and that is very bad. If there is only one item in the
> list, the user shouldn't be suckered into hitting the dropdown arrow and
> still only seeing that single item. If, instead, there were no little
black
> triangle, then the user would go "Oh, I guess this is the only item in the
> list so I'm not going to waste time tapping on it to see if I might be
able
> to select something else."
There is value in showing a dropdown arrow if only one item is in the list:
the user of the program then KNOWS it is a list. He knows that, even if
there is only the single option now, there may be more later. Showing the
arrows sometimes and not others is a discontinuity that gets people
confused.
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Matthew D Moss
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