Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
by mr_toad on Sunday January 28, 2024 @10:37PM
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That was true in the 90’s when you’d post a whole page but these days the individual checkboxes are more likely to have event handlers that transmit state to the server immediately.
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> That was true in the 90’s when you’d post a whole page
I'd say that to the extent that is true, it was equally true for radio buttons in the 90s.
These days I find myself scrolling around pages to look for submit/save/apply buttons to determine whether checkboxes and radio buttons are intended to have immediate effects or have to be submitted to be applied, because there really seems to be a lack of consensus on what these elements mean in those terms.