[dev] access key issue

Eric Rostetter eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu
Thu Jan 23 17:27:59 PST 2003


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> > So, questions are:
> >
> > 1) Is this browser/OS specific at all?
> 
> Sort of. You shouldn't see this in Mozilla as Mozilla users get the new menu
> that doesn't have access keys. You should get the old menu only with
> browsers that aren't DOM capable.

I guess my point is then that this should not be merged back to the RELENG_2
branch (unless the new menu is also merged back).


> That leads to another problem. Browsers that aren't DOM capable probably
> won't support access keys either, so there's no point in displaying them at
> all.

Not sure how you would handle that but that seems a reasonable statement.

> > 2) If they don't work unless you click in the frame, are they really of
> > much use?
> 
> No. And that's the reason why I didn't add them to the new menu. It was
> rather a side effect that they have been added to the bottom menu.

Gotcha.

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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