Re: Click to link bug not quite fixed:

On Fri, 9 May 2003 10:30:16 -0400
Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org> wrote:

> On Friday 09 May 2003 09:33, Irene Vatton wrote:
> > Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org> wrote:
> > > 10. When I want to click on a local fragment, I hit click, then if I
> > > hit page up or down I loose the "click activation", if I scroll then
> > > click, it opens another blank dialog.
> >
> > One complaint about the Amaya accessibility was the impossibility
> > to leave the status "wait for click " without clicking.
> > Since  the 8.0 release, the "wait for click " stops as soon as the user
> > hits a key and the user has to scroll by clicking in the scroll bar.
> > What do you suggest?
> 
> Please note that there two problems here. First, for accessibility I want to 
> minimize my mousing. Is the complaint you speak of, for people you have 
> *incorrectly* entered the "wait for click" state? Perhaps escape key could 
> serve that function. In the past I've asked that he escape key be able to 
> exit various modes, or in particular to dismiss a pop-window (i.e. spell 
> checking when I'm done) so I don't have to resort to mousing in on the 
> "done" button. (Or at least provide some keyboard short cut keys for 
> replace, done, ignore, etc.)

Okay now Esc or Delete pops up the dialogue form.

> These problems plus the weird behavior of removing spaces between word 
> adjacent to <a href=".../> tags makes 8.0 very difficult to use. I've moved 
> back to Amaya 7.2 for the time being.
> 

I cannot reproduce that weird behavior of removing spaces between words.
     Irene.
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