- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:59:35 +0100
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 03:06:01 +1200, Matthew Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote: > On 25 Jul, 2004, at 12:04 AM, Jim Ley wrote: > > There's lots of possible modifier keys available to a UA - > > Disagreed. Perhaps you could name some of these "lots of possible > modifer keys available". Escape is completely unused in my UA - of course you will rightly say that most people aren't used to that as a modifier, I'm an emacs head so am though, and feel that it would make a lot more sense than overriding ALT yet again. I don't believe ALT+SHIFT or CTRL+SHIFT are used on windows either. They're not particularly good options any of them, but they're all better than ALT! > > why override ALT. > > Because that's what the native GUI uses, so if users expect it to be > anything, they expect it to be Alt. I disagree, I would say this is a reason why users don't expect ALT+anything to do anything but native GUI behaviour. Jim.
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