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Thereby breaking the current behavior of the spacebar, which is to scroll one window-height? No, thank you, I use that all over the place.
by randallsquared 17y ago
Thereby breaking the current behavior of the spacebar, which is to scroll one window-height? No, thank you, I use that all over the place.
- ken 17y agoThanks to frames, javascript, etc., space bar is already broken. The last browser I remember where space bar consistently worked right was Netscape 1. I'm not saying this particular feature should or shouldn't be added, but "right here" seems a strange place to draw the line. I can see either (a) don't let webpage authors muck with it at all, or (b) give them enough control to make it do something intelligent. What we've got now is enough control to screw it up for the user, but not the right abstractions to do what authors really want anyway.
- randallsquared 17y agoAs long as focus is on the window, I've had few problems with the spacebar-to-page-down behavior in Firefox 3 or Safari 3. When it does break, I do notice, because that's my default paging mechanism, so I think it works way more often than not, even now.
- TweedHeads 17y agoscroll="flow" would be the default, and for backwards compatibility. Wherever page designers want to put a section stop AND ONLY THEN they use scroll="stop" so users enjoy a better surfing experience, like I described earlier: going pic by pic, topic by topic or section by section. Don't like the spacebar? use any other mechanism. I am pointing a users need worth being considered.