[flomo]

Just some blatantly obvious examples: Select Multiple was some Windows 3 garbage, and HTML didn't have a 'combobox', much less a 'multi-combobox'. (MDN says datalist is not supported on Firefox, so maybe it still doesn't.) So write it yourself, or use a library. The form validation stuff is still bad, and idk if modern desktop browsers have a good date control.

[Y-bar]

I can agree that it is bad. And there might be some examples where <select multiple> is the "best" way, but I cannot ever remember a real-world use case where it was not better solved using a list of <input type=checkbox> anyway.

[komali2]

I must be confused because the use case I'm thinking of is a list of 5,000 somethings that are filtered down through user-input text in the combobox, that they can then select, and selected items are then displayed as bubbles within the input field or elsewhere. Certainly can't just display 5,000 checkboxes instead :P

[flomo]

Yeah sure, the 'right' way was checkboxes in an iframe. Just that the weblords care alot more about adding syntax to javascript than whatever multi-select-searchable-accessible-box you might want. The form stuff still mostly sucks.

[shakna]

Firefox got partial support in 2011. All that's missing, today, is support for date and time fields.

For most usecases, it'll work. Not so much for meeting scheduling, or calendar management, but everything else.