getting off my windows dependency

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

Tab browsing is a feature found in Mozilla as well as elinks.  The idea
is you have several pages open in a single browser session and you
switch between them by switching tabs.  Consider a javascript that pops
up a new window.  If it does it in a new tab, you can get back to the
actual site easily in the text console.
BTW, Mozilla actually opens a new Window instead of a tab which
can make browsing some sites a real pain.  Since the new
windows are not accessible most of the time you are forced to alt-tab
until you find the origional window displayint the site.
Due to Mozilla's limited accessibility, I've found it a bad idea to
close these windows.  It gets frustrating when you end up closing what
you think is the add only to find you closed the window displaying the
actual site.  With tabs, the "windows" are kept in the browser instead
of becoming another task on your window list.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny



On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:10:03AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Why would browsing by line, word, or char be a browser feature? It seems
> to me such functionality is the responsibility of the assistive
> technology, not the browser.
> 
> Also, when you say "tab browsing," what does that mean? Is there some
> unique definition of tab browsing in elinks?
> 
> 
> Sergei V. Fleytin writes:
> > Hello, listers,
> > 
> > >>>>> "m" == mikster4  <mikster4 at msn.com> writes:
> > 
> > m> I was maening more that it is not how the web browser works itself,
> > m> it is something inserted by the screen reader. Normally you can't
> > m> cursor around the page in a web browser, only jump between the
> > m> controls. Maybe it is my mistake, but I thought the person was
> > m> expecting this behaviour to be in the web browser.
> > 
> > I'd like to make some comment concerning this topic. Both links2 and
> > elinks allow users to navigate within a page like in an editor. Links2
> > provide what they call "braille terminal" wich, in my opinion is a
> > very cool and convenient feature. Elinks also can be customize to
> > behave in similar fashion though it would not be as blind friendly as
> > braille terminal in links2. But elinks has so many cool features,
> > including tab browsing, that it really worth our attention. Below is a
> > fragment from my elinks.conf wich allow to move by characters and
> > lines within elinks using vi-like keybindings.
> > 
> > 
> > bind "main" "k" = "move-cursor-up"
> > bind "main" "l" = "move-cursor-right"
> > bind "main" "h" = "move-cursor-left"
> > bind "main" "j" = "move-cursor-down"
> > 
> > set ui.show_status_bar = 0
> > 
> > I hope it would be useful for someone.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > With best regards, Sergei.
> > 
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> 
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> 
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