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Posted by AES on May 14, 2005, 8:40 am
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For stepping forward and back through a multi-page HTML slide show or
seminar presentation, it's a _lot_ more convenient to use arrow keys, or
other keyboard shortcuts, rather than mouse clicks on buttons --
especially if the buttons appear at different places on the screen on
successive pages, so you have to keep repositioning as well as clicking
the pointer.
I take it there's no provision for accomplishing this using built-in
capabilities of plain standard "vanilla" HTML, without deploying more
complex Java or server-side tools? -- and more generally no way to
accept and process keyboard input for web site navigation using just
HTML alone?
(Not talking about forms and collecting data here -- just navigation.)
If so, too bad -- lots of unrelated computer applications seem to be
standardizing these days on a GUI "pseudo standard" in which Tab moves
the input point from input field to field on screen; CR or Enter accepts
or activates keyboard input into those fields.
In lots of applications the display also accepts and responds to the
Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys as well as the 4 arrow keys that
appear on a wide range of extended keyboards.
Would be nice if vanilla web sites could easily use those capabilities
also.
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Posted by AES on May 14, 2005, 12:58 pm
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> For stepping forward and back through a multi-page HTML slide show or
> seminar presentation, it's a _lot_ more convenient to use arrow keys, or
> other keyboard shortcuts, rather than mouse clicks on buttons --
> especially if the buttons appear at different places on the screen on
> successive pages, so you have to keep repositioning as well as clicking
> the pointer.
Thanks for helpful replies on this.
Just struck me that there are also clickable "Previous" and "Next"
buttons in the header panel of MT-NewsWatcher message windows as well,
that take you to the previous or next message, whether in the same
thread or not, and whether as yet unread or not; and I haven't
identified the keys, if any, that correspond to those.
Space Bar provides the "Next" function, sort of, but if you back up
through a sequence of read msgs, then hit Space Bar, it takes you to
next _unread_ msg, not the next sequential (and previously read) msg in
the thread, or back to the list window.
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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on May 14, 2005, 3:57 pm
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AES wrote:
> Would be nice if vanilla web sites could easily use those
> capabilities also.
My browser seems to utilize all those keypresses now, on vanilla web
sites.
Alt-LeftArrow = Back
Alt-RightArrow = Forward
TabTabTab, press Enter for links ...
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Posted by Barbara de Zoete on May 14, 2005, 6:05 pm
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> For stepping forward and back through a multi-page HTML slide show or
> seminar presentation, it's a _lot_ more convenient to use arrow keys, or
> other keyboard shortcuts, rather than mouse clicks on buttons --
> especially if the buttons appear at different places on the screen on
> successive pages, so you have to keep repositioning as well as clicking
> the pointer.
>
> I take it there's no provision for accomplishing this using built-in
> capabilities of plain standard "vanilla" HTML, without deploying more
> complex Java or server-side tools? -- and more generally no way to
> accept and process keyboard input for web site navigation using just
> HTML alone?
>
Google for proper use of the <link> element with the values 'next' and
'previous' for the attribute rel (together with the page related to it as
a value for the attribute href) in the head of a page. It makes use of the
Page up and down keys (in the browsers I know, for Win, IE6, Op7.54, FF)
to switch between one page and the next.
See also <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-LINK>
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Posted by Barbara de Zoete on May 14, 2005, 6:10 pm
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On Sat, 14 May 2005 17:05:06 +0200, Barbara de Zoete
>
>> For stepping forward and back through a multi-page HTML slide show or
>> seminar presentation, it's a _lot_ more convenient to use arrow keys, or
>> other keyboard shortcuts, rather than mouse clicks on buttons --
>>
> Google for proper use of the <link> element with the values 'next' and
> 'previous' for the attribute rel (together with the page related to it
> as a value for the attribute href) in the head of a page. It makes use
> of the Page up and down keys (in the browsers I know, for Win, IE6,
two corrections (haven't used this for some time):
1. You would use the _spacebar_ to tap through a sequence of pages.
2. Ie doesn't work like this (what else is new).
> Op7.54, FF) to switch between one page and the next.
>
> See also <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-LINK>
>
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