- From: Kai Hendry <hendry@cs.helsinki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:17:00 +0300
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 03:06:01 +1200, Matthew Thomas wrote: > >>1) Users can not easily tell what the accesskeys are. > >Their UA should do a better job of informing them. > Agreed. (For example, four years ago I requested for Mozilla: "Where an > <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56701>) Ok you *might* be able to show them. But how is a user supposed to remember them to really get an advantage? Accesskeys vary from site to site. > >>2) Accesskeys can conflict with the UA binds. > >Their UA should do a better job of picking a key combination to > >activate them that doesn't interfere with their default UA binds. > >There's lots of possible modifier keys available to a UA - > Disagreed. Perhaps you could name some of these "lots of possible Yes and think about mobile device UAs. They are operated with one hand. :) > necessary, the spec could even include a statement discouraging authors > from using the attribute. That would be something. To answer Jim's long term question. I hope UAs can implement mechanisms to help users "short cut" to the most interesting or used elements of a web application.
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