Linear search
Wednesday 31 May 2006 @16:07
Wow, shouldn’t this pop-up menu at amazon.com be in alphabetical order? Linear search is difficult for humans too.
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Well, once upon a time I think the idea was that it was ordered by which categories were most popular or something, but once it got past five or ten that seems kind of silly. It would be kind of nice if you could specify hierarchial combo boxes in HTML.
BTW is there any kind of spell checker for this thing?
Hierarchical might be okay, but I hate drilling down through several menus when it’s not entirely clear how they’re organized. A pervasive AJAXy Google suggest-type thing might be best. I’d rather type a few keys than choose from a long list any day. I especially hate having to choose the year, country, or state from a drop-down… even when they are in order.
Hmm.. spell check in the comment box would be nice. There may be a WordPress plugin for it, but I haven’t investigated it yet. I’m pretty sure there’s a Firefox plugin to spell-check text boxes client-side. And Safari now does the red squiggly spell checking in text boxes. So with such client-side solutions, maybe WP folks don’t want to add that complexity onto the server.