Added to wishlist in wiki

RT Users
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  • A “Top” link at the bottom of pages that have enough transactions to
    run the bottom of the ticket off the screen. As people use different
    resolutions this might be something that appears regardless of how many
    transactions appear or set to appear for a static number of transactions.

Mathew Snyder

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  • A “Top” link at the bottom of pages that have enough transactions to
    run the bottom of the ticket off the screen. As people use different
    resolutions this might be something that appears regardless of how many
    transactions appear or set to appear for a static number of transactions.

I’ve never really understood “Top” links.

Are there people whose keyboards don’t have “Home” keys?

Cheers,
– jra
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Designer Baylink RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274

"That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later,
  they stop having sex with you."  -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_
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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:38:51PM -0400, Mathew Snyder wrote:

  • A “Top” link at the bottom of pages that have enough transactions to
    run the bottom of the ticket off the screen. As people use different
    resolutions this might be something that appears regardless of how many
    transactions appear or set to appear for a static number of transactions.

I’ve never really understood “Top” links.

Are there people whose keyboards don’t have “Home” keys?

Cheers,
– jra

I’ve never understood why people need to make snide remarks when they
don’t need to. Is your brain missing a “This contributes nothing
useful” key?

Mathew Snyder
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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

  • A “Top” link at the bottom of pages that have enough transactions to
    run the bottom of the ticket off the screen. As people use different
    resolutions this might be something that appears regardless of how many
    transactions appear or set to appear for a static number of transactions.

I’ve never really understood “Top” links.

Are there people whose keyboards don’t have “Home” keys?

I’ve never understood why people need to make snide remarks when they
don’t need to. Is your brain missing a “This contributes nothing
useful” key?

The question was perfectly serious, Mathew; no particular need to get
pissy about it.

Cheers,
– jra
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Designer Baylink RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274

"That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later,
  they stop having sex with you."  -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_
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  • A “Top” link at the bottom of pages that have enough transactions to
    run the bottom of the ticket off the screen. As people use different
    resolutions this might be something that appears regardless of how many
    transactions appear or set to appear for a static number of transactions.

I’ve never really understood “Top” links.

Are there people whose keyboards don’t have “Home” keys?

I’ve never understood why people need to make snide remarks when they
don’t need to. Is your brain missing a “This contributes nothing
useful” key?

The question was perfectly serious, Mathew; no particular need to get
pissy about it.

Then the answer is that your hand may not be on the keyboard. It’s
often nicer to use the mouse scroll wheel to move around in a
long page and clicking a link is a natural operation.

Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@gmail.com

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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

  • A “Top” link at the bottom of pages that have enough
    transactions to
    run the bottom of the ticket off the screen. As people use
    different
    resolutions this might be something that appears regardless of
    how many
    transactions appear or set to appear for a static number of
    transactions.

I’ve never really understood “Top” links.

Are there people whose keyboards don’t have “Home” keys?

I’ve never understood why people need to make snide remarks when they
don’t need to. Is your brain missing a “This contributes nothing
useful” key?

The question was perfectly serious, Mathew; no particular need to get
pissy about it.

Many users do not use their keyboard for page navigation. A “Top”
link provides a mouse friendly alternative that is clearly associated
with the viewed page.

Adam Clarke
www.strategicdata.com.au

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Many users do not use their keyboard for page navigation. A “Top”
link provides a mouse friendly alternative that is clearly associated
with the viewed page.

My experience with Top links is that they end up in the navigation
stack, and are therefore confusing, WRT, oh, using the scroll bar (if
one does not wish to move one’s hand to the keyboard.

Have I been poorly served by my browsers?

Cheers
– jra
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Designer Baylink RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274

"That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later,
  they stop having sex with you."  -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_
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I was thinking that Top links suck, but then I realised the browser in my hand (blackberry) doesn’t have a home key…

Jeb

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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:20:34PM +1000, Adam Clarke wrote:

Many users do not use their keyboard for page navigation. A “Top”
link provides a mouse friendly alternative that is clearly associated
with the viewed page.

My experience with Top links is that they end up in the navigation
stack, and are therefore confusing, WRT, oh, using the scroll bar (if
one does not wish to move one’s hand to the keyboard.

Have I been poorly served by my browsers?

Cheers
– jra
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Designer Baylink RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274

"That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later,
  they stop having sex with you."  -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_

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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:20:34PM +1000, Adam Clarke wrote:

Many users do not use their keyboard for page navigation. A “Top”
link provides a mouse friendly alternative that is clearly associated
with the viewed page.

My experience with Top links is that they end up in the navigation
stack, and are therefore confusing, WRT, oh, using the scroll bar (if
one does not wish to move one’s hand to the keyboard.

Have I been poorly served by my browsers?

Cheers
– jra

The issue with using the scrollbar is the reason I suggested the “Top”
link in the first place. Oftentimes here at work we get tickets that
end up long enough to reduce the scroll bar to a mere quarter of an
inch. Considering I have my resolution set to 1280x1024 you can imagine
how long these things get.

Mathew Snyder

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Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

Many users do not use their keyboard for page navigation. A “Top”
link provides a mouse friendly alternative that is clearly associated
with the viewed page.

My experience with Top links is that they end up in the navigation
stack, and are therefore confusing, WRT, oh, using the scroll bar (if
one does not wish to move one’s hand to the keyboard.

Have I been poorly served by my browsers?

The issue with using the scrollbar is the reason I suggested the “Top”
link in the first place. Oftentimes here at work we get tickets that
end up long enough to reduce the scroll bar to a mere quarter of an
inch. Considering I have my resolution set to 1280x1024 you can imagine
how long these things get.

Perhaps you’re poorly served by your browser. My laptop is native at
1400x1050, and I almost never get a scrollbar thumb too short for me to
grab reliably, but that’s in Firefox, which probably purposefully
limits how short the thumb can be.

So, clearly, confusing Back-page-lists not withstanding, there’s a call
for it.

Cheers,
– jra
Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Designer Baylink RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274

"That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later,
  they stop having sex with you."  -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_