[imp] DIMP + "delete" key

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Wed Feb 27 21:09:15 UTC 2008


Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> 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.

Even better, we check to see if the keystroke is in a form element.   
If so, we ignore.  This is the check I will add shortly.

michael

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