Re: LYNX-DEV More mice talk

[Philip Webb]

970416 Al Gilman wrote: 
> various people contributed:
> > anyone have any thoughts on how to implement a PREV_DOC feature with a
> > mouse and only one (left) button?  The top/bottom bar navigation seems to
> > work pretty well for moving around inside a document.
> > 
> > by analogy with the top/bottom feature, the obvious solution would be
> > to have the mouse up against the left side of the screen,
> > provided it's outside a link area: maybe the 1st 3 columns.
>   
> The way I read Philip's "provided it's outside a link area" was that
> there would be logic to check the neighborhood of the mouse position
> for links and not execute PREV_DOC unless the coast is clear.

yes, that's what i meant.
 
> That's more graphical awareness than Lynx runs with, no?

but isn't the idea of using mice that it's then easier for the user
to "click on the link", implying that Lynx knows when it's on a link?

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