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How to make website dropdownlist work better for iPhone

I'm developing a website for intra company use; most of the users will have iPhones. There are several dropdownlists which can have hundreds of choices (for example, a vendor list); with a keyboard this isn't a problem because you can just type the first characters of the required value and zoom in. With the iPhone you get that very clever rotating finder; but the keyboard doesn't appear and it takes many finger flicks to get to the end of the alphabet.

Does anyone have suggestions which will make the user experience a little easier for iPhone users but work well with other machines?

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Maybe you can try an ajax enabled auto complete text box instead of a drop down. Check out

http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete

This way the user can still type to search for an entry but the safari UI won't force them to select one since its just a text box.

TJB  2009-10-06 05:06:53
OK, thanks, I'll check it out.
dsteele  2009-10-06 21:50:39

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