[Laszlo-dev] IE8 "accelerators", return of the paperclip ?

[P T Withington]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8#Accelerators

Kind of like Apple's 'data detectors' (http://macbiblioblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/apple-data-detectors-are-so-useful.html 
), which cause magic pop-up menus to show up when you mouse over  
things that look like dates, phone numbers, addresses, etc.

IMO, they are all 'after the fact' attempts to implement presentation  
types.  The UI which jams an icon in your face is really just  
marketing.  I would be much happier if, rather than "advertising", I  
could make a gesture (isn't this what context menus are for) to ask if  
there were additional actions I could make.  I think the LispM had  
something like that, didn't hyper-super-meta-middle list all available  
gestures?  :P

On 2009-07-30, at 12:46EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:

> I was just testing a DHTML app in IE8, and noticed a weird icon that
> appears  in the page when you select a block of text.
> It is apparently a 'helpful' new feature of IE8, which is that they  
> have a
> list of 'accelerators' which are available
> when you select text, such as "email this", or "search on  
> Microsoft's search
> engine", you get the idea.
>
> The big question is whether there is any way to disable this from  
> the app.
> Hopefully there will be enough
> disgust from the browser user community that this will be disabled by
> default. .They never learn ...
>
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com