Keyboarding through feed lists

[scripting]

Now there's a cursor that goes up and down through a feed list.

When you press Return the feed expands revealing the five most recent items in the feed.

It's a toggle so pressing Return again collapses it.

You can quickly move through the list expanding and collapsing feeds.

Here's a quick video demo.

Thanks to Frank McPherson for the suggestion! :-)

[scripting]

Please some confirmation that this works.

1. Nothing to install, just reload feedland.org.
2. Go to a feed list. Click on any line in the list (avoid clicking on links).
3. Use the down-arrow and up-arrow keys to navigate up and down.
4. Press Return to expand the current feed, to see the five items.
5. Press Return again to collapse.
6. Try reading a bunch of new stuff this way.

Let me know if it works.

Thanks. ;-)

[mistersugar]

This works as described above and shown in your video. Very nice feature.

Somehow, though, the checkboxes for my feed list are only in grey rather than the blue shown in your video. Screenshot attached. I am in Safari v0.4.12 and see grey check boxes in both Twitter and email login. I see no console errors. All else seems to be fine and working.

[scripting]

@mistersugar — the color of the checkboxes is up to the browser, I was using chrome in the video.

[OlderAndNotWiser]

Fabulous...love the keyboard. Works just as you described. My only suggestions are to have a key to travel through the topics. And to have the screen update with the selection at the top. This way the current selection in the list will display the articles...for me, they are below the fold, if you follow me. Or maybe I missed something? Leave it the way it is and still get a big thank you.

[scripting]

@OlderAndNotWiser -- glad you like. your suggestion of having the cursor go into the items for a feed is noted. thanks. ;-)

[fmcpherson]

Thanks Dave, works as you specified above. I was also going to note the same observation that @OlderAndNotWiser with no longer being able to tab through items on the page we now cannot move the cursor in items. I had assumed when I wrote the original recommendation that you were re-using some of your code from Drummer/Concord hence why I suggested the Ctrl+Shift+, toggle. I do like the down arrow and enter combination you went with.