Phobos doc anchors not friendly for keyboard-centric browsers
Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 19 06:16:52 PDT 2016
On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 11:38:20 UTC, rcorre wrote:
> 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.
I don't understand, the anchor link doesn't go anywhere. It's to
provide a perma-link to that piece of documentation so you can
direct link to it somewhere else.
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