mac attack, how the hell do I…
Posted by jonathan - 27/02/08 at 06:02:28 pmWhile the web kidz out there might be shocked, our company is making a giant leap to support more than one browser after 7 years of forcing ie on our clients. We also are branching out of windows and supporting macs as well. A few days ago I got myself hooked up with a kvm switch and a mac mini to open the bug flood gates as I test on the mac.
The first “itjustworks” feature I found was that I could not tab to a button on a form. In order to change this you need to:
- Open System Preferences
- Click on Keyboard & Mouse
- Under Full Keyboard access: in windows and dialogs press Tab to move the keyboard focus between: select the radio button, All Controls
One thing I have learned over the past 7 years doing web dev is that there is always a logical history to what might appear unintuitive or even ridiculous to you right now. I wonder what the thinking was to have the the tab button only work on textboxes and lists. Any ideas?
PS: I am posting this from the mac and I do not know how many times I have hit ctrl+home and ctrl+end only to see nothing happen on the screen. Urgh! 15 years of muscle memory is hard to overcome. apple key + shift + left arrow plus the context switch on the kvm switch is kind of funny. I do like brushing my teeth with the opposite hand occasionally just to keep myself honest.
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