Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-27 Thread David Wilkinson
Rush Bellucci wrote: I can confirm that menues are non usable on a touchscreen on W8 CP or DP. Every (and I say EVERY) other software can be used, but Thunderbird, Firefox and Mozilla Family software are almost impossible to use at the moment due to the menu+touch screen. Hope someone will

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-23 Thread Ron Hunter
On 3/22/2012 8:25 PM, David Wilkinson wrote: Ron Hunter wrote: Nobody trying FireFox on Windows 8? Who would want to? I don't see that this question calls for Microsoft and/or Windows 8 bashing. After all, Mozilla is apparently going to build a Metro version of Firefox, so I am sure they

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-23 Thread David Wilkinson
Ron Hunter wrote: I didn't pay too much attention to the article, but I think I saw something that indicated Firefox would work in both modes. Sounds like a neat trick, since even IE seems to be two programs. Not bashing MS, but certainly bashing Metro! AFAIK, it is not possible for the same

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-23 Thread Rush Bellucci
On 23 Mar, 10:41, David Wilkinson no-re...@effisols.com wrote: Ron Hunter wrote: I didn't pay too much attention to the article, but I think I saw something that indicated Firefox would work in both modes. Sounds like a neat trick, since even IE seems to be two programs. Not bashing

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-23 Thread David Wilkinson
Rush Bellucci wrote: I can confirm that menues are non usable on a touchscreen on W8 CP or DP. Every (and I say EVERY) other software can be used, but Thunderbird, Firefox and Mozilla Family software are almost impossible to use at the moment due to the menu+touch screen. Hope someone will

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-22 Thread David Wilkinson
David Wilkinson wrote: In both DP and CP Windows 8 versions, in touchscreen mode the menus in FireFox and SeaMonkey do not work (I haven't tried Thunderbird). The menu drops down, but pressing an item does not work. It is as if the menu is transparent -- the press registers on the the window

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
David Wilkinson wrote: Nobody trying FireFox on Windows 8? An alternative explanation : perhaps few have any real interest in trying Windows 8. /Cave lector/ : view acquired by introspection. Philip Taylor ___ support-seamonkey mailing list

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-22 Thread Philip Chee
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:24:21 -0400, David Wilkinson wrote: David Wilkinson wrote: In both DP and CP Windows 8 versions, in touchscreen mode the menus in FireFox and SeaMonkey do not work (I haven't tried Thunderbird). The menu drops down, but pressing an item does not work. It is as if the

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-22 Thread David Wilkinson
Philip Chee wrote: They've only just started writing code for a Metro version of Firefox so it'll be some time before anyone can test that on Windows 8. Yes, but I'm talking about the regular desktop version. I don't know if this will apply to third party browsers, but Metro IE10 allows no

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-22 Thread Ron K.
David Wilkinson on 3/22/2012 2:34 PM, keyboarded a reply: Philip Chee wrote: They've only just started writing code for a Metro version of Firefox so it'll be some time before anyone can test that on Windows 8. Yes, but I'm talking about the regular desktop version. I don't know if this will

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-22 Thread Ron Hunter
On 3/22/2012 10:24 AM, David Wilkinson wrote: David Wilkinson wrote: In both DP and CP Windows 8 versions, in touchscreen mode the menus in FireFox and SeaMonkey do not work (I haven't tried Thunderbird). The menu drops down, but pressing an item does not work. It is as if the menu is

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-22 Thread David Wilkinson
Ron K. wrote: Have an idea that needs testing. When the menu item is clicked it has focus when the drop down menu opens. With a mouse, were scrolling down into the menu and dragging the focus with the cursor. My question is, will doing a finger drag shift the focus to the desired item on the

Re: Menus on Windows 8 touchscreen

2012-03-22 Thread David Wilkinson
Ron Hunter wrote: Nobody trying FireFox on Windows 8? Who would want to? I don't see that this question calls for Microsoft and/or Windows 8 bashing. After all, Mozilla is apparently going to build a Metro version of Firefox, so I am sure they would like the desktop version to work on