It's either that or implement tab navigation in javascript. I'm working
on, and pretty far along in development of getting arrow keys to work in
navigating the message list, *however* I've encountered a hurdle. I can
navigate the message list with arrows, however when I navigate to below
what is visible on the screen the message list scrollbar doesn't move.
The messages are still being selected, but obviously that doesn't do you
a whole lot of good if you can't see what's being selected.
On the whole, if this hurdle can be overcome, I'd prefer this
implementation rather than creating a link out of the subject header.
By the way, gmail does not provide header linking or messagelist tabbing
functionality either, however they do allow you to turn on keyboard
shortcuts:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answe....
I guess what I'm advocating is the same approach that gmail took - but
with more standard keyboard shortcuts.
By the way, a progress report on my arrow navigation feature (which would be easy to integrate tab into)
- I've got the part done that only enables the arrow functionality if
the last click you made was in the message list. It's just a flag that gets set when you click on any row and gets reset when you click on anything else. It still needs a little work. Right now the flag gets reset if you click on the messagelist scollbar which I'd like to not have happen.
- I'm pretty stymied by the scrollbar problem with selecting messages
that are not on the visible part of the list. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
-Charles
Dennis Duggen wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday i tried to navigate with keyboard (my mouse didn't work) in RC. It was less than a success since i couldn't get into my mails. The sender column is a link, so i could write new messages to people, but it wasn't really what i wanted. Therefor this feature request.
Is it possible to make the subject as a link, this way keyboard navigation would be possible.
Maybe it could be solution to the discussion about singe and double click to open new messages. If the entire row except subject and sender text would act on double click.
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Dennis