3 Easy Interface Improvements

[Charles J Risher III]

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 08:55  PM, Scott wrote:

>> 3 - Select Address Field
>>
>> Make the entire address automatically selected when clicking in the 
>> Address Field.  99% of the time I click there it is to type in a new 
>> address, and it is annoying to have to keep triple clicking or 
>> clicking and dragging to select the address.  If you prefer it the 
>> other way, please at least make this an option.
>
> You have no doubt seen how many people feel about this already :-)  We 
> tend to prefer our current, standard text field behavior.


Yes, I know.  That is why I request that you make it an option.  A 
friend of mine won't use Omniweb at all because of this.

I am aware of all the methods listed below, but they all take longer.

*Please at least give me the option.* Thanks.


> As others have mentioned, there are a few ways you can easily select 
> the entire URL:
>
> 1.  Use command-L
> 2.  Triple-click in the field
> 3.  Click in the field either before or after the text that is 
> currently there and then drag down and slightly towards the opposite 
> end of the location bar to have it select all text without you having 
> to drag the entire length of the URL.