Re: [Lynx-dev] Don't open link on left mouse click

[Karen Lewellen]

But lynx allows one to search the page using the slash key.  why would one 
use  tab keys when one can narrow down the link goal?
granted, I just tried w3m for the first time this afternoon, not 
JavaScript enough  for the Toronto public library, but neither is links or 
elinks.
still,  not having the slash key find option meant it took me longer to 
reach   the link I sought.
Kare



On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, Robin Stern wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 02:15:46PM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> > On 02/08/2022 12:20, Mouse wrote:
> > > (a) so here's an opportunity for lynx to do better!
> >
> > They did it at a time when the convention of single click to select and
> > double click to activate was a standard part of the Windows user interface.
> > I think they took that position that selection wasn't something that people
> > wanted to do with hypertext links, i.e., I think they thought single click
> > activation was the better solution, for the hypertext use case.
> There is another important reason why its more natural for w3m and lynx to not 
> follow the link on click. That ie because the user might then want to press '.' 
> to open the underlying link in an external graphical browser like Firefox etc. 
> At the moment if there is a link surrounded by other links on all of N, E, S, W 
> directions then it is impossible to select it and press '.' to open in an 
> external viewer. One is forced to press tab/ arrow keys multiple times to first 
> reach to that link and then press '.'.