Tim wrote:
What's worse if you try and *make* a form submit when the enter key
is pressed on a system which doesn't normally work that way.
"Safalra" <us****@safalra .com> posted:
Think of the poor Amiga users... :) Actually Amiga browsers make up
about 0.1% of the hits to my site, so I guess they are still around.
Actually, that was one of them on my mind. I still have fond memories of
using mine (a system that boots in 12 seconds, doesn't need shutdowns,
isn't plagued by internet viruses, didn't need re-installing software over
and over, didn't have huge bloated software, didn't have cryptic crap in
system directories, and so on...). I still have one under the desk used
for specific tasks that it's best suited for: Using a computer to generate
text and graphics for video work.
Getting back to the task at hand, I found its manner of using form-like
gadgets to be more logical. Anybody who's ever typed on a typewriter knows
that hitting enter only finishes the current task (what you just typed in).
You do something extra once you've finished enterring in data (which you do
by typing and pressing enter).
The usual behaviour of using forms confuses most new Windows users, they
find they've suddenly submitted something that they weren't read to, yet,
if they use just the keyboard. Rather than those that click with the
mouse, type somewhere, click elsewhere with the mouse, and type there, etc
(who've probably decided to do that because they got a shock the first time
they pressed enter in a form-like gadget).
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