Legal Keywords in 2.17.3

[Jason Pyeron]

Here is what we did for some asp modeled inventory software.

We had a situation where new entries were added at a rate of one per week.
we had a multi select above and underneath <text style='display:none' 
.../> and a icon [add new] wich set the style to disp=yes showing the box
further lynx always showed the text box (not understanding display=none)

next we had a js listener on the box whenever it lost focus or enter was 
pressed, it added it to the box above (registered it w/ the server 1st) in 
the selected state.

if the browser did not understand js then the list was post processed, all 
the same.

Jason Pyeron

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Myk Melez wrote:

Jon Wilmoth wrote:

>This is what we use here.  I can definitely see how they could be the
>"bane of users' existence".  However we have a pretty small list ~8 (6
>are shown at a time) and it seems to work pretty well.  Users here
>weren't putting in keywords because they either didn't know what to put
>in (yes...even though the describekeywords gives them the list of
>possibilities.
>  
>
If you are comfortable with your users having JavaScript capabilities, I 
think the solution proposed in bug 80169 is a pretty good one.  It 
provides two drop-down menus next to the keywords field, one for adding 
keywords and one for removing them.  Keywords get added to/removed from 
the field as the user selects them from the lists.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80169

This aids discoverability, since users can look at the lists to see what 
they can add, while improving usability, since users can select an item 
from a list to add it instead of having to type it into a text field 
filled with other keywords and can remove keywords using the same kind 
of mechanism they used to add them.

>I'm not sure the keywords list would ever be very large since they have
>to apply to all products.
>  
>
Yeah, that needs to be fixed, and there's even a bug on it, although it 
hasn't gotten any traction for a while.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106592

-myk


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