[imp] DIMP + "delete" key

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Wed Feb 27 20:26:34 UTC 2008


Quoting Liam Hoekenga <liamr at umich.edu>:

> Apparently, this breaks the ability to us the backspace key in the DIMP
> serach box on IE 6 (and other?) and Firefox 2 on WinXP, and Safari on OSX
> (when Safari works with DIMP)
>
> Strangely, the delete key on my powerbook (which sends BACKSPACE) will
> both delete messages in the DIMP index pane *and* delete text in the
> search box when I use it with Firefox 2 for OSX.

So should we just remove the BACKSPACE support? Should we consider  
another delete shortcut, like ctrl/alt-D, or just 'D' on its own?

Alternately, shouldn't be we checking e.element() to see if the  
keystroke is actually on the viewport? That might resolve this.

-chuck


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