4.2 Final popup-button behaviour

[Jake Robb]

Right you are, although 4.2 still exhibits the behavior of IE5.2, rather
than IE6, as I described previously:

> In IE6, when filling out the ubiquitous Address form, I can tab from
> field to field (as I can in OW and IE5.2).  The difference arises
> when I get to the State dropdown box.  On the PC, when the dropdown
> is selected, I can hit "M" five times, and it selects Michigan for
> me (Michigan is alphabetically the fifth state that starts with M).

Another more Mac-like option would be Finder-like behavior: allow users to
type the first few letters of the desired option.  It's up for debate
whether being more Mac-like or more consistent with 90% of the computing
world is preferable.  If I had to pick one, I'd say go Mac-like, but I'd
rather it be a user preference.

-Jake


Ken Case wrote:

> On Thursday, Apr 17, 2003, at 09:46 US/Pacific, Jake Robb wrote:
>> Is this in reference to the popup menus created by the HTML <SELECT>
>> tag? If so, this isn't working for me in either 4.2 final or 4.5sp7 --
>> I can't tab to popup menus at all in either one.  I've gone through
>> all of the preferences to see if I can enable that functionality (as
>> you can in IE5.2), and found nothing.
> 
> This capability is controlled by a system preference.  Look in System
> Preferences, under Keyboard, for the "Full Keyboard Access" tab.
> There's a switch there which turns on full keyboard access, and once
> you turn that on you should be able to tab to popups, buttons, and
> other non-text form elements in OmniWeb 4.2 (though not yet in 4.5).
> 
> Cheers,
> Ken
>