
I deliberately avoided naming my preference in the body of the

Trivial though it sounds, this is an issue because the User Interface element in question behaves differently on different OSes.
...traditionally this is called 'drop-down' from Windows, where the widget behaves in that manner. Mac users traditionally call it a 'pop-up', since that's how it works here.
...there's no way to name the widget consistently across platforms, because the widget itself is different. This is why HTML cops out and just calls it "select", leaving it up to the implementation to decide how the selection takes place.I'd much prefer if the FAQs called this element some name that accurately identified it regardless of platform, but failing that and based purely on the

Thoughts?