in reply to Re^2: More re PM bug? (fixed)
in thread More re PM bug?

Well, consider yourself lucky. "end", "page down", "down arrow", and "mouse wheel" all change form drop-downs here. Navigating the mouse pointer to the narrow strip of the scroll bar is a pain, as is evidenced by the invention of the "scroll wheel". And I use the mouse as little as practical (it is slow and cumbersome compared to keyboard methods in most cases of there being a keyboard method).

I have a distant memory of having to use Alt-Down to navigate a drop-down. I hope to make or find an add-on that moves back toward the navigation keys being useful much, much more often. I also hate that clicking on a Flash&trade component makes even more keyboard navigation impossible, especially Alt-F, Alt-D, and Ctrl-Tab.

- tye        

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^4: More re PM bug? (kb)
by jdporter (Paladin) on Nov 10, 2011 at 21:15 UTC
    all change form drop-downs here.

    Where's "here"? I don't experience any of the phenomena you've described... and never have, in any browser, AFAICR.

    What a minute. Your voting buttons are in dropdowns? Mine aren't, they're plain old-fashioned radio buttons. What browser are you using?

[reply]
      Your voting buttons are in dropdowns?

      No, I never said that. I mentioned voting button selection getting changed when I try to scroll as an example of attempts to navigate being thwarted by form input elements (and I've heard lots of people complain about that specific case). And I said drop-downs take over (almost?) all forms of scrolling via keyboard (I fail to find any that still work but I won't claim to know all of the possibilities).

      I was mistaken about scroll wheel changing drop-downs here now (much of the time I don't have a mouse wheel, including when I replied and had to resort to memory of the scroll wheel changing a selection, a memory that I still have despite not reproducing it here now).

      - tye        

[reply]

        Hm. I can imagine keyboard navigation getting messed up... but I don't use keyboard navigation, and (using mouse) I have zero problems with form elements.

        If other people are reporting these problems, then probably they're well known. Have you searched? Is the consensus that they're browser bugs? What browsers do you use? I'm using Chrome. No problems. Never had any problems in Mozilla products either. Maybe I'm not grokking the failure scenario. What steps can I take to trigger the phenomenon?

[reply]

        Well, I don't know what more I can do, given the (little) diagnostic info you've provided. I know you don't need my help; I'm just curious.

[reply]

In Section Perl Monks Discussion