stevenhales
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Are icons and other clickable objects easily recognised in programming terms as being clickable?
For instance when you use Internet explorer, firefox, etc.. etc.. and then press the TAB button on your keyboard, the buttons/fields on the webpage are highlighted or selected. This therefore makes me think that everything clickable or selectable is given a unique tag with which to find easily. Where does your TAB button get this information from - so to speak???
On a seperate topic, does anyone know how you could compare the position of a mouse pointer with that of clickable objects on the screen? I imagine that the pointing software creates a grid behind the scenes and the mouse pointer has certain co-ordinates on that grid. And I guess the HTML of a webpage could be interogated for the position of certain objects. Any thoughts as to how these could be compared?
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Ste
For instance when you use Internet explorer, firefox, etc.. etc.. and then press the TAB button on your keyboard, the buttons/fields on the webpage are highlighted or selected. This therefore makes me think that everything clickable or selectable is given a unique tag with which to find easily. Where does your TAB button get this information from - so to speak???
On a seperate topic, does anyone know how you could compare the position of a mouse pointer with that of clickable objects on the screen? I imagine that the pointing software creates a grid behind the scenes and the mouse pointer has certain co-ordinates on that grid. And I guess the HTML of a webpage could be interogated for the position of certain objects. Any thoughts as to how these could be compared?
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Ste