Sunday, September 02, 2007 10:17 AM
by
mamanze
IE Annoyance
Take a look at this fairly standard IE dialog:
(Shown in its initial state)
K, what's wrong with that dialog? How would you accept that dialog with the keyboard?
Try hitting Alt+Y. Alt+E? Alt+S? Nope, there are no access keys defined.
How about hitting left and enter? Nope, left here does nothing. If you want to switch from the "No" button to the "Yes" button with the keyboard, you need to hit the right arrow key. Yeah, the right arrow key. To drive home that whoever wrote the dialog didn't know their enumerations, once you do hit right to get to the "Yes" button, you need to hit left to get back to the "No" button.
Thankfully, tabbing works.
I know I shouldn't complain too much given the overall quality of IE, but its the little things like this that just get on my nerves every day.