Thanks for the help,
My solution has been to change:
<a href="#" onclick="if(!window.print){alert('Your browser does not
support this feature.Please select print from the file
menu')}else{window.print()};return false;">Print</a>
to this:
HTML:
<a href="#" onclick="printPage();" onkeypress="return
handleEnter(event);" class="topNav">Print</a>
JAVASCRIPT:
function handleEnter(ev) {
var ENTER_KEY=13;
var keyCode = ev.keyCode ? ev.keyCode : ev.which ? ev.which :
ev.charCode;
if (keyCode == ENTER_KEY) {
printPage();
return false;
}
}
function printPage(){
window.print?window.print(): alert('Sorry, your browser does not
support this feature. Please choose print from the file menu.');
}
This now works in Mac IE5.0,5.1,5.2 but Safari 1.0.3 and Mac Netscape
7.2 still do not even allow keyboard tabbing.
Grant
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2005 9:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [WSG] keyboard onclick activation on Mac
Patrick H. Lauke quoth:
> Or, if you must, and your audience does include Mac users, write your
own
> little javascript filter function to ignore TAB before activating
whatever
> behaviour is in the onclick.
And indeed one for the Enter key.
I guess the point I was trying ot make is that these keys already had
specific amnd well understood functions well before the Internet
infected
the ether.
It shouldn't have been a leap of thought to reserve them for exclusive
functions. As you say, the W3C got it wrong. Nuff said.
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