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Windows 8 - Yea or Nay?
LTK:
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--- Quote from: LTK on 05 Nov 2012, 13:07 ---Also, I found another 'interesting' change in the Metro interface: What do you do when you are on a webpage and you want to access the (auto-hiding) URL bar? First person to guess correctly gets a free meme.
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CTRL+D
Did I get it?
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That could be true, I don't know what Ctrl-D does, but I was looking for the mouse command.
snalin:
Yeah, I was going for ctrl+l, which is the standard for accessing the... address line. Don't think I've clicked up there in ages.
I would suppose that the was to access it is to put your mouse in that general area. But I guess it's not that easy?
LTK:
No, you're right, because hovering the mouse cursor is an action that no longer exists on touch-based interfaces. Try again.
pwhodges:
(click to show/hide)Right-click in a non-active area of the web page.
Actually, I think it's something I might have tried automatically, though I don't see how it relates to the touch aspect of the interface...
LTK:
(click to show/hide)
I'd say it's one of those things that's completely unintuitive for anyone familiar with Windows, but actually kind of clever. On the one hand, I ought to balk at the idea of getting rid of the context menu, because it's the one thing you can always rely on to find the action you want. When in doubt, right-click. On the other hand, I use the context menu in the browser exclusively for links and text, and it's pretty much useless outside of that, so I can see the sense in assigning it to a more useful action. I daresay it might actually be more efficient than the normal right-click functionality, at least for web browsers.
Edit: Now this, this is a useful guide.
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