Downloading From Site.....

[Arpan]

This question is just for my sheer inquisitiveness & nothing else! Suppose I type the address www.microsoft.com (or any other address) in the Address bar in Internet Explorer 6 & then press the "Enter" key from the keyboard (or click the "Go" button provided in IE). Immediately after doing so, the message "Opening page http://www.microsoft.com/... is displayed in the status bar in IE. Now before the website starts downloading, if the "Tab" key is pressed from the keyboard the status bar shows a new message that says "Downloading from site: about:blank". Why does the status bar display a different message when the "Tab" key is pressed? Note that this holds true only if the home page is set blank (i.e. about:blank).

Thanks,

Arpan

 

[H Leboeuf]

The focus to that page may not be set.

This is the article explaining some of the shortcut keys.

Check this out.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306832

Move forward through the items on a TAB
Web page, the Address box, or the Links box

Move through the items on a Web page, SHIFT+TAB
the Address box, or the Links box



This question is just for my sheer inquisitiveness & nothing else! Suppose I
type the address www.microsoft.com (or any other address) in the Address bar
in Internet Explorer 6 & then press the "Enter" key from the keyboard (or
click the "Go" button provided in IE). Immediately after doing so, the
message "Opening page http://www.microsoft.com/... is displayed in the
status bar in IE. Now before the website starts downloading, if the "Tab"
key is pressed from the keyboard the status bar shows a new message that
says "Downloading from site: about:blank". Why does the status bar display a
different message when the "Tab" key is pressed? Note that this holds true
only if the home page is set blank (i.e. about:blank).

Thanks,

Arpan