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I haven't tried his any other apps yet, but when I was in the info window in iCal, I noticed that when I tabbed out of the last of the date fields, the highlight kept going into the pop-up menus below. After some experimenting, I discovered you could open the pop-up menu by pressing space bar. From there, arrow keys and Return finish the job. So you can work through all the options without having reach for the mouse, if you are so inclined.
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Space bar opens pop up menus in iCal
Now we just have to wait until the Safari team realizes this, and maybe you won't have to scroll the stupid menus down to choose your state on every freaking form you fill out.
Space bar opens pop up menus in iCal
Dude, in 10.3, when a menu is open you can type the first letter of what you want and it will jump to right there. Currently in Safari, you click on the pop and then do that. And according to the weblog of the lead WebCore developer, already done for post-v1.1 (i.e. after Panther) is to tab to and manipulate all controls in a webpage from the keyboard.
Space bar opens pop up menus in iCal
Well Dude Nr2, Dude Nr1 is entirely right; it is annoying that we're so mouse-dependent while navigating our Macs - Panther is an improvement but it's not there yet.
Thanks!
This is very, very nice. Not as nice as tab-to-activate, but even this -- mouse click to activate the menu, then type the first letter to select -- is a significant improvement. For those of us in those states at the bottom of the alphabetical order (Utah!), this makes things much easier.
And not just the first letter....
...but as many letters as you need in order to specify the particular item. In fact this keyboard dynamic has been standard behavior in Mac OS listboxes and Finder windows since System 7. Great to see Apple's best ideas propagating to other parts of the system!
Tabbing works correctly in other Mac browsers -- but not Safari
I've always tabbed through forms and have become accustomed to typing in the first letter of my state to scroll to it in pop-up menus. Of course I use Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla. The method does not work in Safari, however, and that seems to be an egregious oversight by the safari developer team. Let's hope they fix it soon. |
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