Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Jon Tan
Derek Featherstone wrote: On 5/9/06, Jan Brasna wrote: early builds of Safari on Jaguar might have exhibited a failure to execute onclick with the keyboard. I remember something similar, be it an old Safari or some wacky Netscape, don't really know. I'd say it's not an active issue anymore.

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On May 10, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Al Sparber wrote: Test this page for yourself: http://www.projectseven.com/testing/keypress/ Safari 1.0x (v85.x.x) fails this: there is simply no way to access links with the keyboard. This has been corrected (by way of a user pref) in Safari 1.1 (not availab

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Derek Featherstone
On 5/9/06, Jan Brasna wrote: >> early builds of Safari on Jaguar might have exhibited a failure >> to execute onclick with the keyboard. > >I remember something similar, be it an old Safari or some wacky >Netscape, don't really know. I'd say it's not an active issue anymore. Jan - agreed, whole

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Jan Brasna
early builds of Safari on Jaguar might have exhibited a failure to execute onclick with the keyboard. I remember something similar, be it an old Safari or some wacky Netscape, don't really know. I'd say it's not an active issue anymore. -- Jan Brasna :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Al Sparber
From: "Derek Featherstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Test this page for yourself: http://www.projectseven.com/testing/keypress/ Thanks for the test case, Al... that wasn't my point though. I was looking for documented cases where Safari didn't work with onclick. I *know* that it works just fine wit

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Derek Featherstone
On 5/9/06, Al Sparber wrote: >Test this page for yourself: >http://www.projectseven.com/testing/keypress/ Thanks for the test case, Al... that wasn't my point though. I was looking for documented cases where Safari didn't work with onclick. I *know* that it works just fine with my current version

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Al Sparber
From: "Derek Featherstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Test this page for yourself: http://www.projectseven.com/testing/keypress/ -- Al Sparber PVII http://www.projectseven.com "Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge t

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Quoting Derek Featherstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Patrick - I just want to clarify this piece of information here. Is there a specific version of Safari that does this, or do you have documented test cases? I've got scripts that respond without fail to the onclick in Safari, so I'd like to try and

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Derek Featherstone
On 5/9/06, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: >Safari does indeed seem to be the only current web browser which >doesn't generate an onclick event via the keyboard - anything else >treats a keyboard activation (e.g. hitting enter when the focus is on >a link, for instance) as onclick. Patrick - I just want

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Al Sparber
From: "Katrina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am currently reading a book called 'DOM Scripting' by Jeremy Keith. In it, the author suggests not to use onKeyPress as it can lead to accessibility issues when users are tabbing past those elements with that eventHandler. I would (and do) avoid onKeyPres

Re: [WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-09 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Katrina wrote: I am currently reading a book called 'DOM Scripting' by Jeremy Keith. In it, the author suggests not to use onKeyPress as it can lead to accessibility issues when users are tabbing past those elements with that eventHandler. But at the same time it remains recommended to add b

[WSG] onKeyPress or not onKeyPress

2006-05-08 Thread Katrina
Gday, I am currently reading a book called 'DOM Scripting' by Jeremy Keith. In it, the author suggests not to use onKeyPress as it can lead to accessibility issues when users are tabbing past those elements with that eventHandler. But at the same time it remains recommended to add both. HTM