keyboard shortcuts

Avery Pennarun apenwarr at nit.ca
Wed Aug 11 20:49:58 EEST 2004


On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:17:04PM +0200, Martin Konold wrote:

> > Shift+Arrow is a text selection key (works in mozilla). IMO a bad idea
> > for tab switching.
> 
> 1. Text selection with the keyboard makes only sense after using the
> _mouse_ to explicitly put the focus on the text area.

So shift-arrow works, as long as my keyboard focus doesn't happen to be in a
text entry box on a web page?  What if my home page is google, which moves
the keyboard automatically into a text entry box?

> 2. How often do you switch tabs compared to keyboard text selection in 
> Mozilla?

For me, they're fairly comparable, since about 50% of my browser activity is
in our office wiki.

Have fun,

Avery
 (who actually has no good suggestions to solve the problem)



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