- From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:42:41 -0400
On Jun 14, 2006, at 9:47 PM, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:09:43 +0700, Lachlan Hunt > <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: >> >> Accesskey implementations need to be seriously improved if they are >> to be retained. There's significant evidence to show that there are >> very few, if any, safe keys available which don't clash with existing >> shortcut keys in browsers. > > What Opera does makes sense. Maybe it should be standardized. > ... What Opera does is indeed very cool, but it's quite possible that another browser could come up with something even cooler. And in this area there is very little benefit from interoperability, so I don't see any point in standardizing it. It would be like standardizing on vi. (Or emacs.) (There is actually *harm* from interoperability for accesskey=, from Web authors cluttering pages with instructions on how to use access keys because they're so non-obvious -- instructions that may be incorrect for some platforms, depending on how they're worded, and that are irrelevant for non-interactive UAs like Google.) -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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