Aiyeee! What is that, some sort of torture test for your user/customer?

From human-interface perspective, for example, I dread having to change my TVGuide.com settings, because they present to me a list of about 800 channels that I may or may not subscribe to... initially all checked. I then have to go down and deselect all the pay-per-view channels, and the spanish channels, and a few others that I actually don't get.

And the problem is that each one of these selections requires an incredible eye-hand coordination... "move mouse, click, darn missed, move mouse some more, click again". Over and over and over again.

Please, for the love of humanity, provide some interface other than checkboxes! How about a multiple-select scrolling box, so at least I could drag through regions (or start/end click) to toggle them, provided my browser is smart enough?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: Selecting Items Across multiple screen. by merlyn
in thread Selecting Items Across multiple screen. by Anonymous Monk

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