On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Johan Engelen wrote: I'll try to take closer look at it. I'm pretty sure it is not a decision you can make automatically based solely on the number of options because the importance and value of some options can be vastly different to others. Developers do need to be given a lot of control but they need to show restraint and not design things that look like the cockpit of an Airplane (unless they want to severely limit their audience to trained professionals, which is okay sometimes so long as no one does it unintentionally). The important thing is for users to be in control (so much web design fails abysmally and allows designer to inflict some awful crap on users). In this case you are thinking of the developers using the API putting them in control which is good up to a point, just so long as they understand the need to think about the imporance of a given option and in relation to the amount of space available so that those developers serve their users as well as you have served them. -- Alan