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Re: Pull down menus
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Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:24:20 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Buiting writes:
> IMHO I don't think a pulldown/selection field is a good option. There are
> too many newsgroups to make a selection box more convenient, also the page
> takes more to load and it takes the browser some time to render the
> selection box.
> Also for crossposting the boxes have to be multiple select, this makes the
> boxes more space consuming and harder to see what you have selected in a
> list that is longer than 100 entries.
> You could always open another browser, lookup the extra group(s) you want to
> post to or set the followup to and type it in the first browser... Todd
> could add a button that opens a window displaying all available newsgroups
> as reference but I don't know if that's an option too.

OMG, you said exactly what I was thinking!  Serves me right for not reading
ahead...OK, well, ignore my other post.

--Todd



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"Rick Kujawa" <spacerocks@iname.com> wrote in message news:FzCEw0.K70@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) menus? I (...) IMHO I don't think a pulldown/selection field is a good option. There are too many newsgroups to make a selection box more (...) (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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