Re: [DHTML Style Guide] Tablist: why alt+del?

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).
>