- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:04:20 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
- Cc: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, whatwg@whatwg.org, David Bolter <dbolter@mozilla.com>, wai-xtech-request@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, Marco Zehe <mzehe@mozilla.com>
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Alexander Surkov wrote: > > The suggestion is to treat control element as special character, i.e. > when you move through the text by arrow keys and control element is met > then control element should be focused and its selection should be > changed appropriately. When control has the focus then keyboard > behaviour is defined by control preferences with once exception. If > particular navigation key isn't processed by control or doesn't have any > defined action then editor rules are applied. This seems reasonable (though I'd prefer to study it in a usability lab before making a stronger statement), but it also seems like an implementation detail -- there's nothing that really requires that the user agent even support arrow keys, let alone that they work in a particular way. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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