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Arrow Keys are focus-limited in Safari
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Feb 09, '04 11:16:20AM
The main problem (as alluded to in the above post), is that the [CMD]-[Arrow] combination is focus-limited in Safari. In pages that (unfortunately) use frames or where the mouse focus is on an embedded object, rather than the page containing it, [CMD]-[Arrow] tries to affect the object, not the page being viewed.

Personally, I don't understand the logic here, but it has made me change my habits to [CMD]-[Bracket], (which really only meant that I had to change a mouse button assignment, and little else.)

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Arrow Keys are focus-limited in Safari
Authored by: vdeal on Feb 09, '04 11:47:17AM

Actually, the use is Cmd-left bracket to go back and Cmd-right bracket to go forward. The Cmd left & right arrow keys only work in some instances.



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Arrow Keys are focus-limited in Safari
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Feb 09, '04 04:42:17PM
Yeah, I realize that each bracket and arrow direction sends the browser location in that direction (when that direction is available within the window's history). I just didn't feel like writing out each instance twice, when I was using the general case to explain the limitation of using the arrow keys, in regards to their mouse-focus limitations, whereas the bracket-based navigation is globally window-focus-based.

(Did that make any sense?)

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