Comments on: Apple Posts Human Interface Guidelines for the iPhone http://digitalstevenson.com/jeff/blog/archives/24 what happens in the inbetween Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:58:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Brian Stevenson http://digitalstevenson.com/jeff/blog/archives/24#comment-36 Brian Stevenson Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:05:42 +0000 http://digitalstevenson.com/jeff/blog/archives/24#comment-36 Without knowing much about the iPhone (but knowing enough about programming in general), I'm going to try and field your question. A multiple select element is probably just a fancy control that renders the html SELECT tab with the MULTIPLE element. I know .NET programmers love using advanced controls like this because it's so much quicker to code stuff. By placing a single control on a screen, binding some data to that control, one can quickly retrieve an array of all selected items. Practical uses of this control, from my experience, would be 1. Offering a list of newsletters to subscribed to. 2. Assigning security roles to a user. Basically, anything that has a 1-to-many relationship might benefit from using this control. Without knowing much about the iPhone (but knowing enough about programming in general), I’m going to try and field your question. A multiple select element is probably just a fancy control that renders the html SELECT tab with the MULTIPLE element. I know .NET programmers love using advanced controls like this because it’s so much quicker to code stuff. By placing a single control on a screen, binding some data to that control, one can quickly retrieve an array of all selected items.

Practical uses of this control, from my experience, would be
1. Offering a list of newsletters to subscribed to.
2. Assigning security roles to a user.

Basically, anything that has a 1-to-many relationship might benefit from using this control.

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