Yeah a delete checkbox would make sense. I've seen that in the past, and evidently forgot about it.
A specific horror show I remember was a Netflix-like DVD shipping service, where you maintained an ordered list of DVDs you'd like to receive. Each DVD in your queue had a textbox with a sequence number (1, 2, 3...) in it. You could edit the numbers and on submit, the server would do a stable sort. "1" and "999" could conveniently push multiple items to the top/bottom of the list, but to precisely order the first five items - the most common use case! - you'd usually need multiple passes. Drag and drop would have been way better.
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Yeah a delete checkbox would make sense. I've seen that in the past, and evidently forgot about it.
A specific horror show I remember was a Netflix-like DVD shipping service, where you maintained an ordered list of DVDs you'd like to receive. Each DVD in your queue had a textbox with a sequence number (1, 2, 3...) in it. You could edit the numbers and on submit, the server would do a stable sort. "1" and "999" could conveniently push multiple items to the top/bottom of the list, but to precisely order the first five items - the most common use case! - you'd usually need multiple passes. Drag and drop would have been way better.