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i had no idea <select multiple> existed. it works great on my ipad and has great browser support.

https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_select_multiple

It's always been there, but for traditional browsers, it was tedious: Ctrl/Cmd + click. Many non-power users found it tricky or didn't know about it, so we all more or less settled on checkboxes as a UX standard.

Since 1995 (HTML 2.0)

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html#SEC8.1....

I believe the canonical spec for HTML 2.0 is actually RFC 1866: <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866#section-8.1.3>

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