On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't reviewed that proposal closely, but I would expect <input type=text > list=...> on Mac to use the standard Mac combobox control: > > 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.
That works for me. It doesn't cover the case where you want to take over suggestions for something other than search, but I don't know of anyone doing that. Then again, I didn't even know what a combobox was until this week, so I'm probably not the best to ask about that. :) > It's not clear to me that suggest=... is needed. Well, a simple JS API would be useful independent of UI issues. It's a pain to have to create a datalist, make up an arbitrary id for it, associate it with the input, and loop through your list to add <option> children. I'd expect to be able to do that in one line, if search suggest is a major intended use case here.
