- From: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hallvors@online.no>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:55:34 +0200
On 24 Jul 2004 at 19:59, Jim Ley wrote: > I don't believe ALT+SHIFT or CTRL+SHIFT are used on windows either. Alt+Shift is used by Windows to switch keyboard layout. If this option is enabled in Windows, a program can not capture these keys and prevent the default action. Many browsers (inspired by Opera! :-)!! ) use ctrl-shift to indicate that the result of whatever you are doing should go to a new background window. (For Opera, that covers clicking links, form submissions, menu commands that cause new windows, "Go to URL" in the right-click menu, and should cover triggering something with an accesskey too). Funny you mention Esc, since Opera uses [Shift-Esc] to toggle to accesskey mode. It is way too inconvenient to type, but could perhaps be developed into a general switch (with some UI indication) of whether the web page/web application in the browser or the browser's own UI has input focus. I think there aren't any convincing implementations of accesskey so far, and I'd much rather learn keystrokes that are consistent across websites except for the few websites I work with on a daily basis. It would be quite something if a UA would let you customize your own accesskeys for elements in a website and remember them :-) The suggestion of :accesskey pseudo-class for CSS3 was intriguing. Otherwise accesskey is somewhat stillborn. I don't think we should say anything about it in the spec at this point - if someone picks up the :accesskey idea for styling the concept may still be rescuable.. -- Hallvord R. M. Steen
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