One of the first things that greatly annoyed me when I started using Mac OS X was that I could not tab in a form to a checkbox or radio button. That is a pretty glaring oversight and really kills usability for me. When I am filling out a form I rarely use the mouse to move between fields and just use tab and space to check boxes or select drop down items. Fortunately, the people at Apple realized how stupid they can be sometimes and decided to add an option to allow this. They didn’t make it standard (which would have been the obvious solution to anyone who has filled out a form) but it is easy to change.
These instructions are from MacTips.org:
First go to System Preferences
Choose Keyboard & Mouse
Under Keyboard Shortcuts there is an option to tab through all controls. Select the radio button for All Controls and you are all set.
Another way Apple thinks it knows best when they really don’t; like when they said people don’t need copy and paste on the iPhone since no one does that anyway….
A minor dissertation (yeah yeah, I know its not even close to being one) on my theories about teleportation (hmm that’s not in Firefox’s dictionary), faster-than-light speed and a hint of time travel.
I want to get the notion that if we successfully figure out how to teleport things (I hear we are close or have some very good theories on how to do it), that it will be instantaneous out of people’s heads. First, the fastest that is currently possible will be light speed, which if just around earth is almost near instant. Second, it wouldn’t even be light speed because it most likely would be traveling over wires or fiber cabling. That means speed is limited to how fast data can travel over the cabling. I imagine that converting an object to binary, or some other form of data that can be transmitted via light or electricity would produce massive amounts of data. Sending that data over some form of medium would take a long time, not just in terms of the signal reaching the end point, but also in terms of sending the entire data stream from one end to the other. There also has to be computers to break down and then compile the data. With today’s technology, it might just be faster to overnight ship the item.
This was a weird post but oh well I am weird person with very random thoughts.
Interesting tidbit, teleport and teleportation do not seem to be in Firefox’s internal dictionary as it keeps telling me the words are misspelled as other words.
