Hi!
Akkana wrote:
> Ben Ruppel writes:
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> As long as you're taking opinions: I've been using galeon a lot more,
> and mozilla a lot less, since the autocomplete popup started grabbing
> my mouse and keyboard focus every time I type anything in the urlbar.
> I'd like to disable it completely, or at least disable its focus
> grabbing so that I can click or type somewhere else. The focus-
> grabbing autocomplete dropdown is a huge step backward in usability,
> especially since there's no way to disable it, and has driven me to
> seek other browsers.
Bug 66834 (autocomplete widget should not block clicks outside of
itself) covers the clicking problem. File a bug for an autocomplete
pref, it seems like a reasonable pref.
>>First: (A)In order to get to autocomplete entries, one would have to
>>remove his/her hands from the standard typing position on the keyboard
>>to reach the arrows. For good typists, it would be faster and just as
>>easy to type the rest of the entry. Right now, it's tab, enter, and
>>you're there, but this bug would remove that ease of use.
>>
>
> That's a reasonable argument, and I can see including it in the tab
> order -- but not usurping the tab order. Now, once the dropdown
> appears, you can no longer tab to the page at all -- tab cycles
> between the urlbar and the dropdown without ever going on to
> other elements.
I agree that it shouldnn't usurp the tab order. It should just insert
into it, and allow further tabbing to go elsewhere.
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> There's a bug open for adding a key binding for search, which would
> solve that problem.
Agreed and I've seen that bug.
>
>>Third: Autocomplete only pops up if you started typing an url. why
>>would you start typing an url and THEN decide to tab to other page
>>elements? It is more likely that you would want to select an
>>
>
> To go back to the page and scroll down to get more information
> about what you want to search for?
You have to admit that can't happen often, don't you?
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> I have four keyboards around me right now: two HP PCs, one mac and one
> SGI. On all four, Esc is way up in the upper left, nearly the same
> distance from the home position as the arrow keys are. Admittedly
> I have small hands -- can some people really hit the esc key without
> moving off the home position?
>
> ...Akkana
I can pretty easily swivel my left wrist and get that escape key without
loosing home on an MS natural 1.0, which is pretty big I think. I agree
it's not the easiest, but it's still easier than moving over to the
arrow keys.
