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Re:Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches by jcromartie on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @09:02PM (#744596)
The only reason I'd want these is for a web page to be used on an iPhone. They kill usability for keyboard-focused users.
Re:Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches by barredo on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @09:12PM (#744609)
Edit: it has keyboard support indeed. I've just tried and works perfect. Pressing space switches the checkbox state and tab switches between checkboxes.

It's a pretty damn good job.

<s>I bet it's not too dificult to add keyboard support to them</s>

Re:Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches by kingsley_20 on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @11:02PM (#744705)
Non-obvious keyboard support is still almost worthless.
Re:Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches by jqr on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @11:20PM (#744726)
I'm sure we'll add a focus highlight or something soon!
Re:Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches by barredo on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @11:33PM (#744745)
It would be nice to add a yellow/someothercolor border or change the colors to a darker blue...
Re:Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches by robin_reala on Thursday August 06, 2009 @02:26AM (#744924)
You use Prototype on your iPhone sites? I’ve tried to avoid using libraries on mobile sites as they add a fair chunk of download and processing overhead.

Actually, it’d be nice to see a Webkit specific (or at least modern browser specific) JS library that dumps IE workarounds and fallback DOM selection routines; leaves us with syntactic sugar for QuerySelector and XMLHTTPRequest, and an animation library.

Re:Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches by jrockway on Thursday August 06, 2009 @09:02AM (#745350)
Most of the code in jQuery is not to work around IE, it's for features you actually want. So I doubt this would buy you much savings, especially when gzipped.