- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:38:46 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- cc: W3c-Wai-Ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
In my experience these things are application-specific. Some of the more widespread applications have widespread standards - MacOS introduced command-C, command-X and command-V many years ago, and some variation of this is now pretty common on non-unix systems (which tend to use shift-delete, shift-insert or control-c, control-w, control-y). Beyond that, it seems pretty hard to get unification. It now seems to make more sense to me having configurations based on existing conventions (making up yet another one is a terrible sin that I too have committed) - provide a layer of indirection so you can call stuff via na abstract interface layer, then describe a mappping to it. (This way you can easily define an emacs-like mapping, an Opera-like mapping, and a voice-control mapping...) Cheers Chaals On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Danny Ayers wrote: > >Hi, > >Does anyone know of a list of reasonably standard mappings between keyboard >actions & program behaviour? I can get the stuff like Ctrl-c for 'copy' etc >from nosing around existing applications, but there are one or two things I >can't find (e.g. switching between a framed window view & full-screen). I've >spent a while searching, but all I've found so far have been >application-specific. > >Cheers, >Danny. > >--- >Danny Ayers ><stuff> http://www.isacat.net </stuff> > >Idea maps for the Semantic Web >http://www.isacat.net/ideagraph > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +33 4 92 38 78 22 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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