- From: Geoff Deering <geoff@deering.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:40:32 +1100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > (Cue message a little later from my good mate John Foliot...) Yes, where's John? Is he on holidays? Surely he has a bot to alert him to this discussion:-) I agree with your points in general. But there must be more learnt from the history of software apps. My point. For general browsing, I use Firefox most of the time (and I have real issues with it), and Opera some of the time. Often I hit Ctrl+T for a new tab, and Doh! I'm in Opera and something else happens. I know I can go in and changed the keyboard mapping for Opera, but the builders of software editors (and other applications) learnt a long time ago that this approach wasn't enough, what they had to provide was default sets of keyboard maps for the user to load based on their most familiar editor and keyboard maps. Why are user agents so out of touch with such good software design principles? Aren't they aware of this problem? Not only is this good usability, it is also good marketing, because it makes it much easier for a user to move from one product to the next. So I think user agents need to provide this level of user configuration, and I guess the same applies to keyboard binding via hypertext applications. ---------------------- Geoff Deering
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