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Posted by Steve Fulton on May 14, 2005, 5:53 pm
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Barbara de Zoete wrote:

>> 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).

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Posted by Andy Dingley on May 14, 2005, 7:43 pm
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On Sat, 14 May 2005 17:05:06 +0200, "Barbara de Zoete"

>Google for proper use of the <link> element with the values 'next' and
>'previous' for the attribute rel

If you're interested in this and your using FireFox, then investigate
the FireFox extensions (free downloadable snippets on the Moz site).
There are tools to make these <link> values visible on the browser's
status bar.

Of course this is a user issue, not a page author issue, but they're
worth having on-board.


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Posted by AES on May 15, 2005, 11:18 am
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>
> 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.
>

Thanks again for various replies on this. Two reactions (while fully
recognizing I'm not expert on these issues):

1) In thinking about user interfaces and their standardization, there's
clearly some conflict as to whether the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys
which seem to be found and labelled as such on many expanded keyboards
these days ought to be used (a) to move up and down by one _screenful_
in long documents and/or web pages, or (b) to move to a previous or next
_full page_ in a multi-page document or on a web site.

Given the small sizes of laptop screens, their width > height aspect
ratio, and the natural occurrence of very long (multi-screen) documents
in many cases (e.g., Mathematica notebooks, as just one example), motion
by one screen seems to be a lot more useful and desirable as the default
choice, with motion by one full page perhaps the alternative when the
top or bottom end of a page is already on screen.

2) The "accesskey" attribute (along with related tab ordering concepts)
seems to be just the capability that my original post was looking for,
and I may try to get competent in using it.

It's interesting, however -- or maybe the word should be "unfortunate"?
-- that this concept appears in the HTML spec primarily under the
discussion of Forms, even though this capability would seem to be
fundamentally useful in a much broader variety of web site navigation
applications, like slide shows and photo albums for example.

If I were just trying to learn enough HTML to put some useful material
up on the web (which is in fact what I'm trying to do), I'd probably
skip the "Forms" chapter in my "HTML for Novices" book -- and have to
post, as I did, to this NG to learn about accesskey.

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