Re: Outline View

John,
You are correct - poorly written interfaces know no bounds. They can be found on any platform and any operating system.
Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 5:30 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Greg Wilburn
<gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My argument is that I cannot recall a single application (on any platform), website, emulation screen, etc. where the TAB key "jumped over" an adjacent field (data entry point)... so why should RSE?

First, I'll say that I have no opinion on the behavior of RDi. I'm
(as yet) not an RDi user.

I just wanted to point out that, while rare, I have seen some
green-screen applications on the AS/400 (years ago, so I'm safe
calling it that) which made use of custom field sequencing so that
tabbing did not follow the "visual" order of input fields.

And, to be slightly more relevant (but still, I must stress, not
making any argument in any direction about the behavior of RDi), there
have been some GUI applications (some browser-based, some native
Windows apps) which have confused me a little because tabbing moved
the selector to a widget that either wasn't visible or that I didn't
realize was input-capable.

John Y.