Phobos doc anchors not friendly for keyboard-centric browsers

rcorre via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 19 04:38:20 PDT 2016


Keyboard-centric browsers (e.g. qutebrowser [1], dwb [2], ect.) 
generally let you click on links via 'hinting'. You press a 
button (e.g. 'f' for 'follow'), every clickable element has a 
series of keys shown above it, and you press those keys to follow 
that link (just look at some of the screenshots for the linked 
browsers).

The (kinda) new anchor links in the phobos docs don't work well 
with this, as they require me to mouse over the element for them 
to show up (and having to use the mouse defeats the purpose of a 
keyboard-centric browser).

Is there any reason for this design? Would it hurt to show the 
anchor all the time? If nothing else it would make the anchors 
more discoverable.

[1]: https://www.qutebrowser.org/
[2]: http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/


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