There are benefits for all users stemming from Fitt's law (increased
acquirable targets) and Hick's law (reduced complexity) using a form
for file/folder lists.
I have a file browser type example at
http://dev.funkive.com/tests/jstest.php which works in FF and Safari
(yet to be stressed tested in other browsers). It starts life as a form
but is enhanced with js and css to simulate something closer to a
desktop OS.
regards
Terrence Wood.
On 20 Jun 2005, at 11:48 PM, Josh Rose wrote:
If you aren't going to use images nested in <a> tags
for accessibility, why aren't you going to use a form?
Surely the images are just a way of making the site
look better, or "appeal" to the majority of users?
I'm not sure what the page is for, but if you had a
list of say 25 items, and I only wanted 10 of them,
I'd need to follow 15 links, each time waiting for the
new page to load, and personally I wouldn't bother. I
think making it a form would actually make it more
user-freindly for all your users, and encourage more
people to complete the page.
Just putting my oar in,
Josh.
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