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Style guide issue -- key to open combobox

From: Aaron M Leventhal <aleventh@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:59:35 +0100
To: "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-ID: <OFF25CE828.D85175F4-ONC1257537.0035CA20-C1257537.0036E493@us.ibm.com>
For http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#combobox

Recently I learned that OS X users expect to be able to open a combo box 
with a space bar. This seems reasonable.  Mac users are not likely to know 
about Alt+Down arrow. Space bar is also a little bit "less geeky" than 
Alt+down. Can we support both the space bar as well as Alt+down? 

- Aaron
Received on Wednesday, 7 January 2009 10:00:17 GMT

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