This is a developers list! (was Re: OS 2008 Web browser scrolling with hardware keys)
Hi, Please let's make all an effort to keep this list restricted to topics about development and let's kick off to maemo-users all those topics interesting for power users (as agreed plenty of times). Thank you. On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:04 -0800, ext Daniel M German wrote: > The only real annoyance that I have experienced is the different > behaviour of how the "up" and "down" hardware keys behave inside the > Web browser. -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: OS 2008 Web browser scrolling with hardware keys
If you press and hold the up or down key it will scroll rather than jump from link to link. On Dec 3, 2007 1:04 PM, Daniel M German <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I installed OS 2008 two days ago. It is a very nice upgrade. Thank you > to all go have been involved. > > The only real annoyance that I have experienced is the different > behaviour of how the "up" and "down" hardware keys behave inside the > Web browser. > > In OS 2007, whenever the currently displayed area of the page did not > have any links, pressing the down key will just scroll down a little > bit. If there was a link below, it will jump to that link. > > The current behaviour jumps from link to link, regardless of where in > the page they are. Once has to scroll with the other hand. > > Jumping from link to link makes for very erratic behaviour, too. > > I presume this is a result of moving from the Opera engine to the > Mozilla one, and it might be difficult to implement this feature > exactly the same. > > But it would be nice to switch the behaviour of Up and Down to be more > like Up and Down in the computer: just scroll. Or even better, provide > both and let the user choose. > > I suspect there is a configuration file somewhere that tells the > browser what to do when the user presses the up/down key? > > > thank you! > > -- > -- > Daniel M. German > http://turingmachine.org/ > http://silvernegative.com/ > dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca > replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . > ___ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: OS 2008 Web browser scrolling with hardware keys
hi, you can disable the "spatial navigation" feature if you want to, just open a browser window, load "about:config". At "set preference" related input fields, set "snav.enabled" to "0" . Scroll will be performed always in that way. regards On Dec 3, 2007 5:04 PM, Daniel M German <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I installed OS 2008 two days ago. It is a very nice upgrade. Thank you > to all go have been involved. > > The only real annoyance that I have experienced is the different > behaviour of how the "up" and "down" hardware keys behave inside the > Web browser. > > In OS 2007, whenever the currently displayed area of the page did not > have any links, pressing the down key will just scroll down a little > bit. If there was a link below, it will jump to that link. > > The current behaviour jumps from link to link, regardless of where in > the page they are. Once has to scroll with the other hand. > > Jumping from link to link makes for very erratic behaviour, too. > > I presume this is a result of moving from the Opera engine to the > Mozilla one, and it might be difficult to implement this feature > exactly the same. > > But it would be nice to switch the behaviour of Up and Down to be more > like Up and Down in the computer: just scroll. Or even better, provide > both and let the user choose. > > I suspect there is a configuration file somewhere that tells the > browser what to do when the user presses the up/down key? > > > thank you! > > -- > -- > Daniel M. German > http://turingmachine.org/ > http://silvernegative.com/ > dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca > replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . > ___ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > -- --Antonio Gomes ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
OS 2008 Web browser scrolling with hardware keys
Hi everybody, I installed OS 2008 two days ago. It is a very nice upgrade. Thank you to all go have been involved. The only real annoyance that I have experienced is the different behaviour of how the "up" and "down" hardware keys behave inside the Web browser. In OS 2007, whenever the currently displayed area of the page did not have any links, pressing the down key will just scroll down a little bit. If there was a link below, it will jump to that link. The current behaviour jumps from link to link, regardless of where in the page they are. Once has to scroll with the other hand. Jumping from link to link makes for very erratic behaviour, too. I presume this is a result of moving from the Opera engine to the Mozilla one, and it might be difficult to implement this feature exactly the same. But it would be nice to switch the behaviour of Up and Down to be more like Up and Down in the computer: just scroll. Or even better, provide both and let the user choose. I suspect there is a configuration file somewhere that tells the browser what to do when the user presses the up/down key? thank you! -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
