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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/25/18 11:35
Ed <ex@directory> wrote:
> I dispute most of the comments/replies that you have made here.
The Usenet way of saying that your opponent is right is to quote him
comprehensively and present no argument against any item.
> But it
> would be way off-topic to discuss further in this forum.
This is about which constructs should be used in HTML, so if _that_ is off-
topic to you, maybe you should find yourself another forum.
> But the earlier advice was excellent i.e. the webmaster must ask the
> RIGHT question.
Excuse me while I yawn.
> So, in the case that the OP presented, the question might be 'From the
> drop down list, please select the option that *** best *** describes
> your place of birth'.
You are making the issue just more difficult that way. To begin with, how
does a list drop down in a speech browser, and exactly where do HTML
specifications say that a particular kind of <select> element _must_ be
implemented as a drop down list?
Asking about place of birth is pointless if you are interested - hopefully
for some legitimate reason - about the country of birth, which is an
_official_ matter (and may actually deviate from the country of the physical
birth). There's no reason to make the text any more complicated than
"Country of birth". (If that's what you are asking. In the EU, you would need
very special reasons for asking such things. Check the data protection
directive and the national law that implements it.)
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