[IxDA Discuss] 'Select Country' dropdown

[Bryan Minihan]

One of the most frequent usability requests we got at my last company was to
make IE browser dropdowns behave more like MS Office dropdown lists, wherein
you click a dropdown box and can type the first several letters of an option
to jump directly to it (e.g. typing "nor" to get to "North Carolina" rather
than "nnnnnn").  For folks just beginning to use productivity apps heavily
all day long, esp in forms with several dropdowns, it can get pretty
frustrating...

Bryan
http://www.bryanminihan.com


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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Billy
Cox
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:31 AM
To: 'UI List'
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] 'Select Country' dropdown

I cannot understand why a state dropdown would display state abbreviations
versus the actual name of the state. One would assume that the average user
knows the abbreviation of their own state, but I used to assume that
everyone knew that they could TAB through a form.