Button behaviors (look clicked, press-and hold), also select-lists, etc. - Consider them systematically to be an input selection method. So they go here! *** These are not widgets why? Because they are tied directly to the input method. A spinner is not used on a pure scroll-and-select device, because it's solving the input problem of touch only. Right??? NEED BETTER NAME!!!!

Forms as a way to collect information in an ordered manner pre-date computing by at least a century. Many standards were developed in the paper form era, and have translated to computerized database forms, and then to web forms. The ubiquity of the web -- to software developers if not all users -- means forms for all computing types have settled on these standard input methods.

WEBFORM SUMMARY: text – a simple text box that allows input of a single line of text (an alternative, password, is used for security purposes, in which the characters typed in are invisible or replaced by symbols such as *) checkbox – a check box radio – a radio button file – a file select control for uploading a file reset – a reset button that, when activated, tells the browser to restore the values to their initial values. submit – a button that tells the browser to take action on the form (typically to send it to a server) textarea – much like the text input field except a textarea allows for multiple rows of data to be shown and entered select – a drop-down list that displays a list of items a user can select from