I hate Mac OS X browsers

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From: Paul Mison
Subject: I hate Mac OS X browsers
Date: 11:30 on 12 Aug 2003
When you have a form shown on a web page, and a field selected, and 
you hit tab, what happens? Well, if you're using Safari, it moves to 
the next text field, ignoring buttons, checkboxes and so on. Camino, 
however, selects every form element in turn, including the buttons 
and checkboxes.

Venerable oldie Internet Explorer offers this as a preference: 
http://2lmc.org/misc/ie_tab_option.png

One of the things noted in that preference is that you can 
temporarily override the preference with Option in addition to Tab. 
What does this do in Camino? Nothing. In Safari? It inputs a real tab 
character in a form field. (I never need to do this. Is it a common 
request?)

I hate Camino, because I prefer the Safari behaviour. I hate Safari, 
because sometimes I'd like to tab to form fields other than text 
ones, and then I have to use the mouse. I hate IE because the 
preference dialog is accessed with Command ; not Command , and anyway 
that dialog looks horrible.

I also hate Mac OS X, because even when you enable Full Keyboard 
Access and allow it to tab to any field, that system-level preference 
isn't obeyed by Safari.

I don't think I hate all this as much as Arthur does though.

-- 
:: paul
:: compiles with canadian cs1471 protocol

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