- From: David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:05:01 -0500
- To: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
- CC: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, earl johnson <earlj.biker@gmail.com>
One guess is that if the user is experimenting with Control+W to see if it works... they'll close their window if the DHTML author hasn't implemented swallowed that event (since it bubbles). cheers, David Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: > > The current keystroke proposal for tablist is: > http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#tabpanel > > If a tabpanel is "delete-able", the suggested keystroke is "Alt+Del". > I have forgotten the reason for that, and, now, it strikes me as odd. > > Other tablists (for example, desktop tablists) where a tabpanel is > "delete-able", the usual gesture is "Control+W" (Command+W on Mac). > Since this is already common practice, I suggest that it be used for > dhtml tablists as well. > > Was there a reason why "Control+W" was not available? > > Note that this is important to get "right" since we are trying to > consolidate the keystrokes for tablist and accordion. At the moment, > the accordion guidelines make no mention of deletion, although I > anticipate some one will design an accordion that way, and it should > use the same keystroke. > http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#accordion > > (Aside: FWIW, "Alt+Del" appears only once in the style guide). >
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