[imp] binding keys to HTML form buttons

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:53:35 -0500


Quoting Donnie Barnes <djb@donniebarnes.com>:

> Well, first, you could turn them off by default if you're worried about 
> support nightmares.  :-)  Second, response time from a keybinding would be 
> the same as the instant you click the button on the mouse and you wouldn't 
> have to wait for your brain to tell your hand to move over there to do it.
> 
> Now, if you can't do it due to limitations in browsers and/or the standards
> around them, that's fine.  I just don't buy number 2 above.  :-)

The standards and browser limitations are enough. But the second reason is the 
better one, I think; responding to keybindings is a rather unnatural thing for 
a website to do. Having it wouldn't improve the general user experience, that I 
can see.

-chuck

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