keyboard shortcuts
Pat Suwalski
pat at suwalski.net
Wed Aug 11 21:13:28 EEST 2004
Martin Konold wrote:
> I assume that whenever you use the keyboard based text selection you firstly
> use the mouse to point to the relevant area (focus selection on the text
> area)?!
Since you've brought this up twice now:
No.
I, and many people I know, use the Tab key to get to the entry box. It's
really much faster on a laptop instead of using the touchpad, especially
for forms you use every day.
Between form fields, it is also much quicker to use tab and shift-tab to
go to the next and previous one.
In fact, I hardly ever use the mouse in my browser.
I think that was Claes said about Ctrl-Tab mirroring the behaviour of
Alt-Tab is very important. Shift-Left/Right has no metaphor or
interaction/usability 'parent', and conflicts with functions that have
been used in text entry for at least two decades.
--Pat
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