Escape: Windows vs Mac and Linux

Anthony Holmes  18 June 2009 02:30:41 PM

Ever since Notes 8 arrived I've liked the way that it renders HTML emails perfectly, and the way that the internal browser is as good as a 'proper' browser. That's because it is: when you click on a link in Notes and it opens a web page as a Notes document window, it's rendered by the OS's standard browser: for Windows this is Internet Explorer.

One tiny thing has always bugged me: When you press "Escape" to close a window in Notes, any of your document windows will close except for ones that are actually a browser page. It's a simple inconsistency in behaviour. I've always assumed that there must be a  technical issue that means that this wasn't possible.

So I was surprised the other day when I went to close one of those "Notes window rendered by a browser" windows, and (without thinking) I pressed the Escape key: and it closed (!) I realised that I was using Notes on my Macintosh. I then went and tested the same thing with Notes running under Linux and, lo and behold, the "Notes window rendered by a browser" window also closed with the Escape key.

On the Macintosh the HTML content in Notes is rendered by Safari. On Linux it is rendered by Firefox. I assume that both of those browsers can be made to respond to an Escape key.

I admit: this is a very trivial issue, but I thought I'd blog about it in case there was somebody else in the world who was worried about it.

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