Why the hell didn’t any of you guys tell me about this before? Caret navigation! I didn’t know that was possible in a web browser!
Neat! That’ll come in handy the next time my mouse bites the dust and I’m too lazy to go out and buy a new one right away.
Dude, you didn’t know that?!?!?!?!?!
[sub]Okay, neither did I.[/sub]
That’s been possible in browsers since pretty much forever. Nobody uses it though because it’s a pain in the ass; tabbing over to the link or box you want can often take forever on pages that have a lot of clickable elements. However, it has come in handy at times when I’ve been troubleshooting a computer when it can’t use the mouse (such as in safe mode with some USB mice on systems without legacy USB support.)
You can navigate Windows this way, too.
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That’s been possible in browsers since pretty much forever. Nobody uses it though because it’s a pain in the ass; tabbing over to the link or box you want can often take forever on pages that have a lot of clickable elements.
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The number of clickable elements doesn’t matter in caret browsing.
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The number of clickable elements doesn’t matter in caret browsing.
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AH – now I see, having turned on Caret browsing in Firefox. However, it’s not that intuitive; caret browsing doesn’t work well in div layers/iframes as they’re treated a bit like their own pages, so moving right to the end of the line in a div layer simply returns it to the beginning of the next line in the same div layer; to switch layers you have to move up and out of that layer.