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

[Karen Lewellen]

who said anything about using the list page?
That is not equal to using the / key, typing the word sign, and being 
taken swiftly to the active sign in link on the page.
My main point about  w3m though is that I have no real reason to try again 
since it did not  pass the library's must use JavaScript door.
Neither does lynx, but I can still search, quickly, the library catalog 
using lynx.
I agree with others though, I do not  use a mouse...at all, so lynx 
managing  mouse functions is not important for me personally.



On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, Robin Stern wrote:

> @Karen this is getting off topic. Because you are new to w3m, you are
> probably unaware of some goodness from it that can be inherits by lynx.
> Most importantly, you can display and search just the title of links by
> pressing Meta-m, which is Escape-m by default. It???s a way better feature
> than what lynx has as list page that lists the long URLs that don???t mean
> anything a lot of the time.
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 12:38 PM Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>
> wrote:
>
> > 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 '.'.
> > >