jnga
commented
12 years ago For the photos menu, an extra tap is required in order for the choice to take effect, and the user has to tap in the drop-down menu itself rather than the usual scrolling selector area on iOS. A native control will fix both of these things.
With the family and genus menus, which are a combo box control that pulls up the keyboard, the keyboard is not dismissed as it should upon making a selection. Although it was initially thought that keyboard entry was desirable for these controls, the controls are now further down the page and are mostly a "power user" feature. With native controls, interaction will be better for mobile users, and desktop users will still be able to press a key to help navigate the list.
sidkoul
On the iPad, the
are all Dijit widgets and require extra tapping on the part of a tablet user. If we replaced them with native HTML widgets, the user interaction would be simpler.