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Re: Tabbing in Safari and Opera

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 1, 2013 3:14PM

On 01/04/2013 22:01, David Ashleydale wrote:
> Hi Angela,
>
> That's just how Safari works. Tabbing only takes you from form field to
> firm field. You can get it to tab to links by doing Option -Tab.

Or change it in Safari's preferences, Advanced, "Press Tab to highlight
each item on a webpage" which then reverses the behavior, making Tab go
to links as well and Option+Tab skipping links.

Opera uses a completely esoteric set of keyboard controls: SHIFT+cursors
for "spatial navigation" (where the visual position of items is taken
into account, and you can move up/down/left/right and it'll try and find
the nearest other focusable element in that direction) and CMD+up/down
for the traditional tab/shift+tab of moving to the next/previous link.

Note that the upcoming webkit-based Opera 14 is likely to adhere to what
Chrome/Chromium does, which is to just use Tab/Shift+Tab like any other
browser.

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