type: widget
release: 0.0
priority: low
status: in development
documentation: url || N/A
demo: http://quasipartikel.at/multiselect_next/
Selecting multiple items in a list may be tedious, unobvious and awkward (especially when choosing among a few hundred items) to most users. Moreover, even if items are sorted in a specific order, searching through the list is at the most an unattractive process. This is not mentionning downloading all the items when the user really want to find specific ones. In order to satisfy all these gaps, the original list should be replaced by a more friendly and intuitive equivalent in an unobstrubtive way.
The replacement widget should satisfy the following base features :
Related plugins:
Base layout with search capabilities.
The widget should follow options naming convention, and support bindable events. It should also natively support localization.
(Pre-enhanced HTML markup structure that will be transformed into the final widget. There may be multiple possible HTML markup options per widget: for example, for a slider, radiobuttons, inputs or selects could all be used. )
(The HTML markup structure and classes that will be used by the scripts in the enhanced version)
(Detailed recommendations for ARIA, HTML markup, CSS and javascript that will contribute to universal access and full section 508 accessibility for screen readers, mobile devices and any other devices)
(Description of the CSS classes to be used for all states, how custom theming and Themeroller support will work.)
(Link to the latest version in the jQuery UI trunk here)
(Use this area to place things that we're hashing out like features and options we're not sure we should include, questions about how this fits into UI and relates to other widgets and utilities, known problems, whether features should be broken across multiple releases, etc.)