aloha! a few weeks ago at one of our last meetings of 2008, we had a discussion about non-visual dragging and dropping, and it occurred to me afterwards that the model we should be working on for keyboard control of drag'n'drop is actually, grab'n'drop, which leaves us with 2 mnemonically sensible commands for a keyboard only implementation of drag'n'drop proposed keystrokes for action: "grab" = Modifier/ Control / Command / Whatever plus g "drop" = Modifier/ Control / Command/ Whatever plus d these are the only sensible mnemonics for drag'n'drop in a non-visual experience: items are selected, grabbed, then focus is moved to where they need to be stroke on the author-designated target, or wherever the user wants them to be dropped gregory. -------------------------------------------------------------- CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary -------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita: oedipus@hicom.net Oedipus' Online Complex: http://my.opera.com/oedipus/ Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------Received on Monday, 5 January 2009 19:52:42 GMT
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