Forgot to blog yesterday… well I remembered a bunch of times, but I was at work and thought I’d wait till I was home. Then I forgot. Pity really because I’m sure I had something to write about while I was at work, whereas it’s all a blank now. So I’m going to complain about blogger. But first a bit of techy background.
One of the areas where Microsoft Windows has ALWAYS done well is that it’s provided a keyboard-only way to do just about everything. You can choose a different window with Alt-Tab and Alt-escape, you can open menus by pressing Alt and seeing what letter is underlined, and you can move between edit fields and buttons by hitting tab and shift-tab. This gave you completely mouse-free way to do most tasks - useful if you didn’t have a mouse, can’t operate regular input devices, or like me, spend most of your time at the keyboard typing things into one window or another.
But you can’t on blogger because their new “improved” site design doesn’t show the unsightly (and vital) dotted box around the currently-selected button or item >:-( It’s like taking the handles off the doors of a road car because they spoil the lines of it, forcing you to get in through the tailgate.