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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by jspash on Sunday July 21, 2019 @05:40PM (#20493841)
I'll admit it is pretty fast. Assuming you are using a mouse. But keyboard navigation is non-existent. So you have to ask yourself is it worth it to go against decades of effort put in to standard web navigation for what gain? Obviously only you can answer that for your blog. I'm not having a go.

But I will give you credit for the fact that it does work with Lynx!

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by TeMPOraL on Sunday July 21, 2019 @05:44PM (#20493858)
By "keyboard" I assume you mean TAB-key-based navigation (I don't know of any other included in the browsers)? If so, it looks to me that links are in fact TAB-stops, but they're not being highlighted. It's something that should be solvable with a CSS adjustment.
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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by quazar on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:11PM (#20493986)
If the links are not highlighted by default, then tab navigation is basically non-existent since I cannot see where I'd be redirected and I personally bother to write custom CSS only for the websites I visit very often.

Is there an actual reason to disable highlighting? It lowers usability and accessibility, but I'm not sure what do you get in return?

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by StavrosK on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:19PM (#20494032)
Oops, I'll fix that, thank you. I'm assuming the designer thought it looked "better".

Also I use Vimium so I never noticed, since that mode of navigation is much faster.

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by extra88 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:30PM (#20494365)
> Is there an actual reason to disable highlighting?

Some browsers, Chrome especially, show the focus outline when elements are clicked with a mouse and some people think it looks unacceptably bad.

Focus-visible is a CSS property meant to solve that but it’s only supported in Firefox and requires browser heuristics to do the right thing.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-focus-visible

https://css-tricks.com/keyboard-only-focus-styles/

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by yc12340 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:20PM (#20495134)
...also known as "directional navigation" — widely used by screen readers and browsers on Android TV or some Android Auto devices.
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