 | | From: | Eik | | Subject: | Magnetic cursor | | Date: | Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:26:57 -0000 |
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 | The spacial navigation feature means that Opera knows the physical
location of links on screen, not just their position in the HTML so
how about a feature where if you hover the mouse while holding the
Shift key, the cursor is gently pulled toward the nearest link?
Some links can be fiddly because they use tiny text or images (or they
just use a single character as link text etc) so this would be very
useful to people who aren't like William Tell on the mouse or browse
in high resolutions on smaller screens.
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| | From: | tbt | | Subject: | Re: Magnetic cursor | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:18:47 -0700 |
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| On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:26:57 -0000, Eik wrote:
> The spacial navigation feature means that Opera knows the physical
> location of links on screen, not just their position in the HTML so how
> about a feature where if you hover the mouse while holding the Shift
> key, the cursor is gently pulled toward the nearest link?
>
> Some links can be fiddly because they use tiny text or images (or they
> just use a single character as link text etc) so this would be very
> useful to people who aren't like William Tell on the mouse or browse in
> high resolutions on smaller screens.
>
Would be nice for pages that like to use 1x1 pixel images for links
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| | From: | CrazyTerabyte | | Subject: | Re: Magnetic cursor | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:12:17 -0200 |
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| On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:26:57 -0000, Eik wrote:
> The spacial navigation feature means that Opera knows the physical
> location of links on screen, not just their position in the HTML so how
> about a feature where if you hover the mouse while holding the Shift
> key, the cursor is gently pulled toward the nearest link?
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> Some links can be fiddly because they use tiny text or images (or they
> just use a single character as link text etc) so this would be very
> useful to people who aren't like William Tell on the mouse or browse in
> high resolutions on smaller screens.
Have you tried the keyboard shortcuts "Q" and "A"?
You can also try the "Links panel" or the shortcut "Ctrl+J".
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| | From: | Eik | | Subject: | Re: Magnetic cursor | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:32:06 -0000 |
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| On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:12:17 -0200, CrazyTerabyte
wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:26:57 -0000, Eik wrote:
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>> how about a feature where if you hover the mouse while holding the
>> Shift key, the cursor is gently pulled toward the nearest link?
> Have you tried the keyboard shortcuts "Q" and "A"?
> You can also try the "Links panel" or the shortcut "Ctrl+J".
Yes but neither of these do what I mean. I'm suggesting a completely
new feature to compliment all the other methods that would be a simple
accessibility aid to rapidly get the pointer over the links you want.
Pressing A and Q can take far too long to be practical (spacial
navigation is a much improved keyboard method) and going through
panels is even slower. As well as the extra clicking and having to
look away from the page for a minute as you concentrate on the panel,
you also have to work out which link is the one you wanted. Not easy
if the link text is just 'o' as in 'Gooooooooogle' or a tiny icon with
no title/alt text.
A magnetic cursor would be as convenient as Shift-clicking to open a
new tab or automatic word selection (which I know can be annoying but
this is an opt-in feature. You have to hold Shift for it to work).
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