On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > It's also worth noting that <datalist> currently seems to be conceived > as a combobox, while search suggestions deserve totally different UI. > Opera's UI is suitable to search suggestions, but WebKit's proposed UI > is inappropriate for them: > > http://docs.google.com/View?id=dch3zh37_0cf8kc8c4 > > There's a little drop-down arrow you have to click to get the list, > which is unexpected for search suggestions. If a separate "suggest" > IDL attribute were added, UAs could provide different UI for that and > datalist.
I haven't reviewed that proposal closely, but I would expect <input type=text list=...> on Mac to use the standard Mac combobox control:
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Likewise on Windows it should show the standard combobox instead of what is pictured there. I would expect <input type=search list=...> to not show any extra buttons, but simply use the list much the way search suggestions work in the Safari built-in search field. It's not clear to me that suggest=... is needed. Regards, Maciej
