Michael Lewis wrote at 5:41 pm (-0400) on 22 6 2005:
My main point was that here we have someone saying the clicking in email
doesn't work the way they like, and yet we have messages from people
wanting HTML mail style things all the time who likely think clicking on
the URL in email to launch
A-NO-NE Music sez:
I appreciate you sit by my side, but if it goes to browser
way, it needs to be Cmd+Click (which I prefer than context menu) to open
new window from the hyperlink.
But that's not the way HTML and web browsers work. You click or double-
click a link (doesn't matter) and it
Michael Lewis wrote at 5:00 pm (-0400) on 22 6 2005:
He's being serious. Double-clicking a URL or email address in nearly any
email program has treated as a web browser would treat it for years.
Really. I don't recall this happening in Claris Emailer, which was the
last mail app I used before
Michael Lewis / 2005/06/22 / 05:00 PM wrote:
He's being serious. Double-clicking a URL or email address in nearly any
email program has treated as a web browser would treat it for years. Can
you double-click a link on a web page to select it's text? Nope.
Welcome to the legacy brought to us
The correct approach is to honour command-click on the address (or URL)
to compose the message (or launch the site). Double-clicking should
select the text, like we are used to in any other text-editing context.
Here, here! (insert smiley tapping a gavel)
Chris
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A-NO-NE Music sez:
PowerMail will confoundingly begin to compose a new message, rather than
select your text. Sigh.
Which is a great feature I don't want to miss!
I'd like it if a CommandClick created a new message or opened a link
and double click just highlighted (jeez that's a long word
A-NO-NE Music wrote at 9:59 am (-0400) on 22 6 2005:
Which is a great feature I don't want to miss!
Are you being serious or sarcastic?
The correct approach is to honour command-click on the address (or URL)
to compose the message (or launch the site). Double-clicking should
select the text,
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