- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:25:01 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Jul 3, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On Jul 3, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:30:20 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak >> <mjs@apple.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> It also seems that accesskey would not work very well on mobile >>> devices, which often have limited keyboards. >> >> The WAP forum (now OMA) obviously disagreed with you, since on WAP >> browsers accesskey (although restricted to numbers 1-9) is widely >> interoperable. > > 1) That's obviously not interoperable with the use of accesskey in > general web content (as opposed to waled garden "mobile web" > content), since the few real sites that use accesskey do not > restrict themselves to 1-9. Although if they did, it might be > easier to reserve keybindings for them... > > 2) How does this work on phones that have a full alphabetic > keyboard, but where you have to hold down a special numeric > modifier to type numbers in any context but the dialer? (For > instance, my Nokia e61). And does an unmodified 1-9 still act as a > rapid access key when typing into a text field on such a phone? > > 3) How does work on phones that are all touchscreen and don't even > show an onscreen keyboard most of the time? > > High-end phones are usually in categories 2 and 3, so it sounds > like the types of phones capable of rendering real web content well > haven't been considered in this design. I don't think accesskey is meant to (nor should be required to) work on every device. To me this would be like saying we shouldn't add gestures to a browser on a phone because no one can use those gestures on their desktop browser. Instead they're forced to use the keyboard or the mouse. So I think the accesskey merely needs to address the problems/use-cases it wants to address. It doesn't have to meet the needs of all users working with all devices. Take care, Rob
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