09.20.08

Keyboard loop changes landed

Posted in Camino at 12:08 am by Smokey

Earlier this evening, I landed Sean Murphy’s patches to fix the keyboard loop (or tab chain) in the main browser window. Sean’s series of patches fixes a large number of outstanding bugs related to keyboard navigation and probably for the first time in Camino’s history establishes a complete, working loop in the main browser window—certainly it’s the first time the tab bar and the pop-up blocker bar have been keyboard accessible. Great work, Sean!

There are undoubtedly still going to be edge cases that we’ve missed in the patches and the review process, and there are a few known limitations of the patch—for instance, you can’t shift-tab back through the content area on all pages—but overall, the new loop is a massive improvement both for those who use the keyboard heavily and for those who’d just like to tab from the location bar or search field to the page content reliably.

If you do run into one of the edge cases we’ve missed, where the keyboard loop breaks or jumps to an unexpected location, please file a bug (after searching to see if someone else has already filed it). We’ll try to fix them as quickly as possible and make they keyboard loop in Camino 2.0 even better.

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