[thelist] IE 6 and Auto Window Focus.... TWEAK UI?

Diane Soini dianesoini at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 18 09:44:07 CDT 2003


I notice a lot of window focus issues with XP and all applications, not 
just browsers. It is hugely annoying. You don't always get focus when 
you expect it, or when you want it, and often an application is focused 
for you whether you want it or not because it did something and wants 
to tell you. (Or maybe there is a robot who needs to walk sadly into 
his box and blow up in the middle of the screen.) There seem to be 
differences for different XP computers, too. My computer has a task bar 
that shows every single thing in it. My partner's computer shows only 
application icons that hold menus listing all the open windows 
associated with the application. This is a horrible annoyance since if 
you open a new browser window it just tosses the taskbar icon into the 
list and you are left to try to figure out which one it is in the list. 
Reason number one for good (short) titles!

I don't think you should really worry too much about trying to control 
every browser quirk, since likely this one is a "feature" designed to 
"help you."

(Sorry for exposing some obvious ignorance about windows XP. I'm not an 
expert. Plus, after days of installing and fixing after the last 
meltdown, I've decided who cares about further tweaking or getting to 
know it well. It's just going to die again anyway.)

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 09:38 PM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

> Re: [thelist] IE 6 and Auto Window Focus.... TWEAK UI?



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