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Author: ar
Date: 08-06-05 13:47
Hello,
I visit freshports sort of frequently to look up news on what is happening with various ports. Usually I have to use the lookup utility by keyword. I'd like to suggest however, that the text entry field have an accesskey defined.
Probably just set accesskey="k" and possibly underline the leter "K" in keyword above it. This would make the site a bit easier to use.
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Author: Dan
Date: 08-06-05 13:59
ar wrote:
> Hello,
> I visit freshports sort of frequently to look up news on what
> is happening with various ports. Usually I have to use the
> lookup utility by keyword.
Do you mean http://www.freshports.org/search.php?
> I'd like to suggest however, that
> the text entry field have an accesskey defined.
>
> Probably just set accesskey="k" and possibly underline the
> leter "K" in keyword above it. This would make the site a bit
> easier to use.
What do you mean by 'accesskey="k"'?
Have a look at http://www.google.com/. Notice how your cursor is in the text field and flashing? Is that what you want?
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Author: ar
Date: 08-06-05 16:37
> Do you mean http://www.freshports.org/search.php?
I was referring to the main index page, but it probably applies there as well.
> What do you mean by 'accesskey="k"'?
Part of the HTML 4x standard has accesskey functionality for form fields. Using Javascript to autofocus is a bit presumptuous for any complex page, but probably appropriate for something as simplistic as google. Anyway, accesskeys don't use javascript, but are a part of html (4) form fields.
Example:
<u>K</u>eyword: <br/>
<INPUT NAME="query" TYPE="text" SIZE="8" accesskey="k" />
Different browsers access the key differently. ctrl+k on OSX alt+k on Windows/Linux.
Reference page of interest:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html
Thanks for your time.
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