Rick Merrill wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote:
»Q« wrote:
In<news:[email protected]>,
Ant<[email protected]> wrote:
I am starting to noticed that more and more web sites are supporting
and using left and right arrow keys to go previous and next
pages/images.
For an example:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/google-acquisitions-timeline_n_696063.html
I click left arrow to a previous article and right arrow for the next
article. I see this in both Mozilla's Firefox v2.0.0.20 (probably the
same in v3.6.8) and SeaMonkey v2.0.6 web browsers. I could not
reproduce this is in old Internet Explorer v6 (IE6).
Is there a way to disable this annoyance? I use keyboard a lot to
navigate online, including web sites.
As Ed says, it's javascript. Short of disabling javascript entirely on
those pages, you'd have to find the script that's catching your
keypresses and block it. There are other approaches to blocking bits
of javascript, but I usually use AdBlock Plus for it. In the case of
huffpost, this filter will work:
|http://s.huffpost.com/assets/js.php?f=yui.js*
As Ed also said, if you block javascript you totally undo the page
navigation. There is no solution to the OP's issue.
When I tried the OP's link, the SM 2.0.6 "navigation bar" comes on but
each button is grayed out and inactive. ( have java and javascript on )
Are you saying that the Navigation Bar is javascript dependent?
No. We're talking about the horizontal band of photos under all the
links with the dark gray background. There are arrows to the left and
right of those photos. You click one and get a different set of photos.
Click on the photo to navigate to the related story/content. Turn off
javascript and that nav panel is broken. In fact, if you have js off
when you go to the page those photos won't even show up. Navigation this
way is what the OP was objecting to: He wanted to be able to navigate
using his keyboard, not the mouse. Can't be done.
Thanks for the clarification!! If javascript can detect mouse 'hover',
one would imagine it can detect "keystroke" events as well.
Maybe, don't know in this case. However, the issue is that the
site/page is coded in such a way as to mandate the user do it their way
or not at all. Hence the OP's frustration.
I don't read the site in question but, having looked at it, I find it
such a horribly designed site that, even if I were interested, I
wouldn't read it.
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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
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