Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:46:51 +0200, Alexey Feldgendler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What would be different between <input type="country"> and <select>?
One allows a list of countries (possibly implemented as a nice globe)
and one allows a list of arbitrary things. However, I think we should
watch out for feature creep and such although I countries are often
asked on sites.
XBL will theoretically allow the author to provide that functionality by
binding some globe widget to the controls. Such a widget could possibly
be implemented using the Google Maps API to render the map and some
additional script to handle selection of a country.
In a recent site I built, I implemented country selection using
something like this:
<input type="text" name="country" list="country-list">
<select name="country-list" id="country-list">
[...]
</select>
Then wrote some JavaScript to simulate the drop down for all browsers,
except Opera which already has native support.
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
