[thelist] Spolsky: things you can't do really well in a web a pplication

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Fri Jun 18 09:58:30 CDT 2004


On 18 Jun 2004, at 15:42, John.Brooking at sappi.com wrote:
> Anyone have any references to making normal HTML web pages more 
> keyboard
> driven? I couldn't find anything in Google, maybe I just wasn't 
> searching
> right. I think input tags can have some kind of taborder attribute (to
> override the default left-right up-down), but maybe that's just IE.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-tabindex

> Beyond mere tabbing, I'd really love a "hotkey" ability, but AFAIK 
> there is no way
> to do this with plain HTML.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-accesskey
... but be very very careful: 
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html#warn

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