On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:59, Andrew Ho wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2004, Tim Churches wrote: > ... > > Different effects in different browsers when you press a given access > > key for a given Web page could lead to grief. > > Tim, > 1) This is no more "grief" than having different buttons on different > web pages.
It is when **the same application** behaves differently with different browsers. > 2) Different desktop applications also support different hot keys > (=access keys). Sure, but that is not analogous. If you re-read the Web page to which you referred, you'll see that the same hot-key keystrokes in the same Web application but under different browsers will result in different actions. The main difference is between IE behaviour and netscape/Mozilla/Firefox behaviour with respect to access keys for radio buttons, checkboxes and submit buttons. Now that Firefox is becoming rightly popular amongst Windows users, it seems to me that these differences have the potential to cause confusion. Of course, if all the users of your Web app always access it from the same browser, then it is not an issue, but if you can be sure of that, then a desktop GUI app might have been a better bet. Nevertheless, the access key attributes are useful to know about, and we may find a limited use for them. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
