- From: Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbosch@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:38:29 +0200
- To: David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>
- CC: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, wai-xtech@w3.org
Is escape actually used for closing things anymore? I think on most platforms it will correspond to the "cancel" option in dialogues, otherwise I don't think it's usually used. As an additional point, tabbed content which you close is usually really deleted - you can't get it back, it's a destructive action. Whereas when escape is used in a dialog, the exact point is that it should be the "no harm done" option (eg, when closing a word processor with an open document which has changes, hitting escape on the "do you want to save this?" dialog will stop the app from closing). So personally, I'd really prefer delete, and not escape, to perform this function. ~ Gijs David Bolter wrote: > > Interesting, perhaps both delete and escape should be offered. > > In case you are interested here is what I have in my dojo sandbox: > http://david.atrc.utoronto.ca/dijit/tests/layout/test_TabContainer.html > > cheers, > David > David Poehlman wrote: >> that or escape. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bolter" >> <david.bolter@utoronto.ca> >> To: <wai-xtech@w3.org> >> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:33 PM >> Subject: tabbed page containers and delete >> >> >> >> Hi. >> >> In the specific case where focus is on a tab for a tab page which is >> closeable, I propose the keyboard user should be able to hit the >> delete key to close/remove the page, without modifiers. >> >> Does this sound reasonable? >> >> cheers, >> David Bolter >> >> >> >> > > >
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