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Re: Alt+Down arrow in combo box well known?

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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Apr 7, 2017 10:41AM

Hello,
as seen below, onchange is a violation, not a poor choice. That is a
terrible platform if you can not get keydown and onclick. I would suggest
changing platforms. But one thing you could do is place a little message
above the box telling users about alt+down arrow. Another thing you could
do is not reload the page, just change the text in the other elements. The
most common approach is to have a lag of 5-10 seconds after the user has
settled on an option before changing. This sort of works.
But please change platforms if there is no support for onclick or keydown
events. That is just promoting bad design.
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I know onchange is poor, unfortunately this is within a limited platform
> application so options are limited. I do not believe we can write standard
> HTML; just use the options the platform gives us.
>
> Joseph
>
> >