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Originally Posted by dwig
I stand partially corrected. It seems can open a local file in Chrome, but only if you are using a keyboard and if you know the secret handshake. Pure touch users can't due to the lack of a menu or toolbar button to perform the action.
I detest UI that isn't discoverable except by trial-and-terror and consider Chrome's failure in this area to be poor design.
My main point still stands. It is Google's bad design and not the fault of Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 nor their Windows 8/8.1/8.1u1.
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Fair point about pure touch users. And Google did mess up over here.
However, everyone should know the "secret handshake" since it is a UI standard; in fact, I have been using it for years, across multiple programs (like: all of them), and didn't even realize for several minutes that Chrome was missing a menu slot for it.
Since I haven't bothered looking at those menus in many years.
Basically, I consider this a complete non-issue (unless you are using pure touch, I guess, in which case I have plenty of biased opinions against that too
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