On May 10, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Tim Hare wrote: > Terry Ford wrote: >> Then again, I have always been "Mouse-centric" since I started on the >> Mac. I do respect the fact that there are keyboard-centric people as >> well; mostly from the PC world. > > It's not a PC/Mac thing; it's a productivity thing. Every time you > have to > take your hands off the keyboard, it slows you down. > > If my users can't enter an invoice or ship an order without taking > their > hands off the keyboard, it's a failure in the software.
I definitely don't dispute that this is a great productivity tool, just that it's not defined by the HIG (and the HIG actually implies otherwise), and it's not documented anywhere that I can find outside of anecdotal "it's always been that way" stories. If anyone can provide actual documentation to this, I'd love to be corrected. As for navigation without this, that's why Apple offer full keyboard access capabilities. If you don't have it on by default, you can enable it and disable it with CTRL-F1. Then, you can Tab between controls even if they don't have a tab order definition by default. I concede the point, but feel that this is another fine example of where Apple's "do as we say, not as we do" HIG policies come into play. Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
