On 2008-01-08, Nick Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Presuming you want a graphical client rather than a terminal browser, > Opera is pretty nice for keybindings... an awful lot can be set in the > advanced preferences. Tab only cycles through form elements, and > Shift+arrows lets you select links, similarly to how elinks does it.
I find that Opera is actually _more_ keyboard-usable than the typical text-mode browsers. A lot of the time I just use inline search to go to a link. Spatial navigation is also nice, although that could be improved^1. With a lot of search keywords (^l to location bar, "wp foobar" for wikipedia search, etc.), as well as address completion, there's little need to touch the mouse for browsing well-designed Web pages (i.e. those that have not seen a Web Designer). Opera also supports configuration the bindings, though a rather awkward WIMPy interface, which is still better than Firefox's "install an extension and hunt for javascript snippets all over the Web for even remapping existing bindings". ^1 I'd like there to be some indication where it will take you, because it isn't always clear in complex layouts, and there should also be header navigation, like with the linear, w/s. I'd also like it not to jump page, when the next option isn't visible, but rather scroll, possibly not moving anywhere, until a target is visible. Among other possible improvements.) -- Tuomo
