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by csw-001 1063 days ago
Has anyone worked with/built a web app that let's users set let their hot keys? Seems like it should be possible? That way users who like hot keys can just pick the ones they want...
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ehnto 1063 days ago
It certainly is possible, it just so rarely shows up in modern web projects. It is not something I have ever seen raised in a UX design meeting or during development.

I honestly think it's just lack of awareness. I know it's partly because we warned against jacking native behavior, I think that probably scared people off shortcuts on the web early on. Now we have really complex web apps, but shortcuts are still not being thought about.

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TonyStr 1063 days ago
That's a lot of work for satisfying very few people. My boss would not be happy
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jay_kyburz 1063 days ago
I'm normally the first person to say we browsers don't need to be any more complicated, but this is one thing I think would be pretty cool.

Website authors could specify a list of [name, callback, defaultKey] and each browser could implement an interface to change the binding locally.

There could be a button right in the address bar for both discovering them and changing them.

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