[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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