I have also found situations in which it would be to override default browser behavior however I can also see the potential for abuse in which malicious code would try to prevent users form leaving a page. On 9/20/07, David Dailey <david.dailey@sru.edu > wrote: > > > At 07:03 AM 9/20/2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > >Hi everyone, > > > >Keyboard shortcuts are useful for a number of reasons: > > I agree with Asbjørn Ulsberg -- a very good > suggestion. So many times that I've tried to > create a web app using CTRL A, CTRL C, CTRL V, > and their cousins so that the user can copy and > paste content that she has created and the like > only to find that the browser has absconded with > these things, and of course all browsers just > enough differently to cause minor anguish. CTRL R > (which I wanted to use to reselect a previously > selected subgraph in a graph drawing utility ) > turned out to be particularly destructive to > dynamic content the user had developed since it > means refresh the browser window (aka kill all > newly created content). Additional safeguards so > that one can override browser functions which > might be destructive to dynamic content might be > welcome as well, though perhaps the proposed solution addresses this as > well. > > David Dailey > > > > -- Chris@tuesdaybegins.com http://www.tuesdaybegins.com -- Chris@tuesdaybegins.com http://www.tuesdaybegins.comReceived on Thursday, 20 September 2007 20:27:46 GMT
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