martinibuster
msg:839444 | 1:16 am on Jan 14, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Neat.
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whoisgregg
msg:839445 | 4:10 am on Jan 14, 2005 (gmt 0) |
It should dramatically increase the "discovery" rate for those other search services and might even increase use.
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whoisgregg
msg:839446 | 9:29 am on Feb 1, 2005 (gmt 0) |
And today, the exact same functionality, heck the same design elements find their way onto the MSN.com new homepage? I mean... come on. MSN could have at least pretended to not straight up steal this.
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hdpt00
msg:839447 | 4:43 pm on Feb 1, 2005 (gmt 0) |
This has been around for a long time. Nothing new.
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whoisgregg
msg:839448 | 11:31 pm on Feb 1, 2005 (gmt 0) |
See all somebody had to do was point that out the first time I brought it up and I wouldn't have to feel silly for making a big deal about it. ;)
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BigUns
msg:839449 | 5:12 am on Feb 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
whoisgregg: FYI: Go to Google or just about any other web page - hit the tab key repeatedly and you will move about the page from link to link (look for the dotted 'focus rectangle') - hit the enter key and you will navigate to that link. You can actually navigate about most web pages without a mouse - just use tab and enter. (There are some additional complexities involving iframes, the tabindex attribute etc but you get the idea.)
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whoisgregg
msg:839450 | 8:41 pm on Feb 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
That's browser technology, not intentional design. If you go to Yahoo's page or MSN.com's page you'll see what I'm talking about. They have javascript stuff going on that is not standard. (And is not on Google's front page.)
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bmcgee
msg:839451 | 2:39 am on Feb 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Agreed, browser technology. Lynx did this in the early 90s before a browser was even available for the web.
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whoisgregg
msg:839452 | 6:50 am on Feb 14, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| Lynx did this in the early 90s |
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They didn't do what I'm talking about, they did what BigUns thought I was reporting. But at this point, I can't tell if anyone (other than martinibuster) has a clue of what I'm actually talking about... so I'll just shut up and move on. If someday, someone actually goes and sees the javascript based feature that yahoo has and MSN just added which I described above and wants to confirm that I'm not insane, feel free to sticky me. :)
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bmcgee
msg:839453 | 4:13 am on Feb 17, 2005 (gmt 0) |
It's still basic browser functionality, with some javascript thrown in. When you tab through a page, it moves the focus between hyperlinks. The js simply uses the focus event to do a little bit of fancy screen updating, as if the user actually clicked on that link. Very similar in nature to the old days where people would make the font color/size different when you hovered over a link.
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