[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 15816] Cannot select multiple non-adjacent items in a multiple select control with the keyboard only

Wed Nov 10 12:53:15 PST 2010

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15816

--- Comment #15 from Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie.diggs at gmail.com>  2010-11-10 12:53:14 PST ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> Great patch! 

Yay! Thanks for doing this implementation Carlos. :-)

> I just have one suggestion. Is it ok we remove the current behavior of up/down key and make your ctrl+up/down as the default up/down behavior?

I would really (really) encourage you not to do this.

> 1. Use up/down key for single-select type of behavior of multiple-select does not make a lot sense;

Perhaps not. HOWEVER, this is what users who use the keyboard instead of the mouse are accustomed to having: In Windows, in GNOME, and (I believe) in OS X. And you don't always know something is multiselect until you try to select multiple items. So maybe it doesn't make sense from a design perspective, but if it suddenly goes away, I fear we shall confuse a non-trivial number of users.

> 2. Using less keys makes the code more portable. For example, on mobile phones, usually no ctrl key is available.

Point very well taken. And I don't have any brilliant answers to this issue, other than could it be handled at the platform/port level?

> 3. This is easy for a user to use the select box without reading some instructions.

Exactly. See my response to number 1. ;-) ;-)

All joking aside, the removal of (unmodified) Up/Down in this case may mean less reading of instructions for one group, but it's going to mean more reading of instructions for another.

So... Ideas?

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