What I Get For Accomidating Firefox On OS X Keyboard Users

I found this blog post about how to get Firefox in OS X to recognize tabindex:

I just spent the better part of an hour trying to get tabindex to work
under Firefox/Mac OS X.

The solution lies not in Firefox, but in the Mac OS X preferences.

Apple Menu > System Preferences > Keyboard and Mouse >
Keyboard Shortcuts

and under “Full Keyboard Access” choose “All controls”.

Sweet lord….

Now in the first line if you replace ‘an hour’ with ‘the afternoon’ then you’ll get an accurate picture on how I spent my afternoon today.

Sweet lord indeed…

September 29, 2008 | Filed Under Browsers, OS X | Leave a Comment 

I Love You Internet Explorer

The Project has this search form on the top of the page. The HTML looks like this:

<form action = "Search.do">
<input type = "text" name = "SearchTextBox">
<input type = "submit" name = "SearchButton" value = "Search">
</form>

Pretty standard stuff right? An input element and a submit button. The problem is that there’s only one input element. Apparently Internet Explorer doesn’t allow the Enter button to submit a form if there’s only one input element. WTF? OK no big deal just add a second (hidden) input field:

<form action = "Search.do">
<input type = "text" name = "SearchTextBox">
<input type = "text" style = "display: none">
<input type = "submit" name = "SearchButton" value = "Search">
</form>

Somehow I’m thinking this isn’t the most elegant solution out there but whatever… it works.

June 18, 2008 | Filed Under Browsers, I Should Really Use A Framework | Leave a Comment