From:	jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date:	Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:45:58 -0500 (EST)
To:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Cc:	OpenDOS discussion list <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject:	Re: [opendos] A suggestion for DOSBOOK.
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It would also be helpful if opendos would use
ascii symbols around those valid links too.
Perhaps brackets around all valid links, and inequality signs
abound the current link where the cursor was positioned.
I know it's customary to use color, but
even sighted people are color blind sometimes.
On Fri, 31
Jan 1997
mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:

> I've got a suggestion for DOSBOOK.  When viewing any page in DOSBOOK
> if you move the cursor keys, they will move the cursor ANYWHERE on the
> page, including where there is no text.  Since there is no use for the
> cursor anywhere else but where there is text, it would be useful if
> DOSBOOK limited cursor movement to valid hypertext links.  This would
> be kindof like LYNX works.
> 
> I find it frustrating to move the cursor over to a word manually.
> That is the same way that DESQview's screens worked too.  It doesn't
> make much sense for it to work that way to me.  
> 
> Just a suggestion for an enhancement.
> 
>    flames > /dev/null
> 
> Mike A. Harris        |             http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
> Computer Consultant   |    My webpage has moved and my address has changed.
> My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html
> mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
> 
> DJGPP: Free 32 bit DOS C compiler.
> 
> 


jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>

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