There's still something to be said for tabbing to all form fields and controls without tabbing through what may be a lot of links between them.
Best, Armen
On Jan 25, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Marc Respass wrote:
I just got the latest nightly build. What they are talking about here is tabbing to non-text fields like popup menus. In Safari, you have to turn on full keyboard access. In IE, it was an internal option. Camino is taking the Mac OS X 10.3 approach. I like this approach. The Mac way is to not tab to non-text fields unless the user turns on full keyboard access. With full keyboard access off, you can still tab to text fields.
If it's not very hard, it might be cool to include something in the preferences to tell the user that they need to turn on the System's full keyboard access (in the Keyboard & Mouse preferrence under Keyboard Shortcuts).
Among things that Camino does better than others is allowing tabbing to a popup and pressing a key to get to the menu item you want. With over 50 selections in a state (or more in a country) popup, this is a really great feature.
Marc
On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Armen Abrahamian wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't do this often but this change is pretty far out of line from the behavior of any other browser used, including Safari, that I think I should speak up.
Every other browser I've ever used in my life lets you Tab from one form field to the next in a web page, regardless of the OS its been on as well. We're talking about IE, Netscape, Mozilla, and Safari all on Windows, *nix, and Mac OS X. Why on earth are we hiding this indispensable, common, and expected behavior under a hidden system pref that most people do not turn on?
I think this is a mistake. I don't need to go into the obligatory I love Camino and all its devs because I do, otherwise I wouldn't be interested in it. I just think this is a pretty bad change to make.
Thanks for listening, Armen
On Jan 25, 2005, at 5:57 AM, Mike Pinkerton wrote:
I knew people were going to be confused. You have to turn on "full keyboard access" in the system prefs.
Personally, I don't agree with this, but... -Pink
On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:18 AM, Brian Evans wrote:
Ok, just curious if this feature has been removed, is a bug, or is going to come back. In filling out forms I used to be able to tab through all fields, fields requiring, ie a state, you could tab to, and then type the first couple letters of the state and it would go to that state. This is no longer possible and seems to me as a downgrade and more Safari-like, and it's one of the main reasons I don't use Safari as one's not able to tab to those type fields and has to manually select the item in the list.
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