[DHTML Style Guide] Tablist: why alt+del?

The current keystroke proposal for tablist is:
http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#tabpanel

If a tabpanel is "delete-able", the suggested keystroke is "Alt+Del".  I 
have forgotten the reason for that, and, now, it strikes me as odd.

Other tablists (for example, desktop tablists) where a tabpanel is 
"delete-able", the usual gesture is "Control+W" (Command+W on Mac).  
Since this is already common practice, I suggest that it be used for 
dhtml tablists as well.

Was there a reason why "Control+W" was not available?

Note that this is important to get "right" since we are trying to 
consolidate the keystrokes for tablist and accordion.  At the moment, 
the accordion guidelines make no mention of deletion, although I 
anticipate some one will design an accordion that way, and it should use 
the same keystroke.
http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#accordion

(Aside:  FWIW, "Alt+Del" appears only once in the style guide).

-- 
;;;;joseph

'This is not war -- this is pest control!'
      - "Doomsday", Dalek Leader -

Received on Friday, 7 November 2008 17:50:07 UTC