October 20, 2006
…well, more of a feature – but it’s going to annoy the hell out of some folk.
You can set accesskeys for webpages so that if an IE6 (and other browser…) user holds down ‘ALT’ + any other key, then presses enter – the browser will navigate to a pre-defined page.
Well in IE7 if you hold down ‘ALT’ + any other key then press enter, the browser enters console (full screen) mode.
What you are supposed to do now is let go of the ‘ALT’ and ‘otherkey’ before you press enter – a simple change, but it is going to confuse a lot of people…
…you may be able to change this behavior in the option settings, but I’m so disgusted that I can’t be bothered to look at the minute…
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Bwahahaha..
You know I’m glad I am slowly migrating all my home systems (apart from a games machine) to Linux and Firefox etc.
Did we really expect M$oft to release a piece of software that actually worksed ‘out of the box’.. I know I didn’t. I am prepared for the slew of ‘critical’ fixes that will no doubt arrive over the next 2 years.
In fairness, Alt + Enter has meant ‘Full screen mode’ in dozens of Windows apps for many years, so I’m not sure this is that big a crime.
I don’t believe anyone really thinks Alt + 1 + Enter is a meaningful key combination in any app. Highlighting a link and requiring another keypress to actually follow it is how tabbing through links works, and that’s the only real precedent for keyboard navigation on a page.
IE7 sure is ugly though. :P
Maybe it has, but NOT in a web browser…
HTML does have the accesskey attribute wich can be very useful (and also very annoying if implemented badly – true!)
even the government (bless ‘em) recommended alt+1+enter as a key combo to take you to the home page…
And yes – it’s a pig aint it…
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