84622 - keybindings documentation for users

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 191206

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[plool]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060703

It would be nice to be able to use "F6" or some other hotkey to be able to
change the URL in th "Address Box". Also, it would be nice of there were a list
of the hotkeys available in the "Help" documentation.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.There is no available hotkeys to modify the current URL you are browsing
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Nothing

Expected Results:  It should change the focus of the cursor to the "Address Bar"
and allow you to either modify the URL or type in a new one

Comment 1

[doctor__j]

Have you tried Ctrl-L?

Comment 2

[plool]

That's exactly it. Just wish it was documented in the help somewhere, along with
other hotkeys.

Comment 3

[Jatin Billimoria]

Check out this page in Mozilla for a list of shortcut keys:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/mozkeyintro.html#xref

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

marking NEW.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 89905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

--> Help

Comment 7

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Reassigning

Comment 8

[rudman]

Documentation is at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/mozkeyintro.html#xref, as Jatin
notes. That provides the requisite documentation, I believe.

Marking as fixed.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

A list of keyboard commands organized by key is useful for discussing the 
keyboard ui and may be useful for developers.  It's not very useful for users.  
Keyboard docs for users should be organized by function (navigation, windowing, 
focus, etc) and included with the browser.

Comment 10

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Roger, Jesse. Reassigning to Jatin, who I think is working on something like this.

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

jatin et al., a good example of documented keyboard shortcuts can be found in
Opera. :)

Comment 12

[Aaron Leventhal]

I'd be interested to know where we are on this, and whether my help is needed.
Do we have any end user keyboard documentation at all yet?

Comment 13

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

steve, jatin, what's the status here? let us know when there's a draft you like
us to review!

Comment 14

[rudman]

Marking as fixed, again. As I noted, there already is keyboard documentation for
developers. Mozilla is a developer platform, not an end-user product. Netscape
will provide end-user documentation on the subject, and other distributions are
free to do so. 

Comment 15

[Jesse Ruderman]

Reopening.  I intend to help fix this.

Comment 16

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: Draft 1: navigator keyboard shortcuts (Windows version)

Comment 17

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: Draft 2: navigator keyboard shortcuts (Windows version)

Comment 18

[Jesse Ruderman]

Taking.

Comment 19

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: Draft 3: minor changes

Added F4 to drop down combo list

"type first few letters" -> "type first letter" 
(to reflect reality until bug 92491 is fixed)

"Force reload, even if cached version seems to be up-to-date" 
  -> "Force a complete reload of all parts of the page"

"Go to a specific web address" -> "enter a web address to visit"

Changed horizontal margins from ems to percents.  This seemed to be the easiest
way to give the table margins but still have the "width:100%" effect.  (Is it
possible to make the table have width "100% - margins" or "use as much width as
you can without running into the margins"?)

Comment 20

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: Draft 4: added mac and linux, removed wanted

There are probably some errors in the Mac and Linux versions.  One specific
problem is that I didn't know which shortcuts were Accel and which were Ctrl.

Comment 21

[Jesse Ruderman]

I'm on vacation this week (visiting MIT), so it would be great if someone else
could make this into a patch.  Bonus points if you add a "Keyboard Shortcuts"
item to the Help menu.  (Why a menu item?  A list of keyboard shortcuts is more
likely to be used as a reference than other parts of Help, and experienced
browser users won't find most of Help useful and may miss the document if it's
buried.)

Comment 22

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: Draft 5: change linux accel from Alt to Ctrl, several small changes

Thanks to dru and kryptolus (#mozillazine) for suggesting many of these
changes.

Comment 23

[Jesse Ruderman]

I'm too busy with school to continue working on this right now.  Does anyone
want to add attachment 76715 [details] to Mozilla and add the Help menu item?

Comment 24

[FZiegler]

From the draft:

> Forms
> Go to next form element......Tab
> Submit form..................Enter

This combination is dangerous, and should be desactivated IMHO.
To see why, go to any page with a form and and a submit button
next to it (such as the present bugzilla page).

Enter some text in the form, and while at it, type TAB + RETURN
(or here, TAB + TAB + RETURN). Although this is a perfectly
legitimate thing to try to type in a text field, it results in
the form being submitted!

Comment 25

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 148091 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 26

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 150446 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 27

[Chris Pimlott]

Minor critiques -
In some table rows, you list multiple key combinations that do the same thing:

Reload page to get the newest version         CTRL + R
                                              F5
In other table rows, you list multiple key combinations that do different things:

Move to next/previous form element or link    Tab
                                              Shift + Tab

This should be made more consistant.  Perhaps something like

Move to next form element or link             Tab
    ... previous form element or link         Shift + Tab

should be used in the second case.

Also, I don't know what this means:
* In general, the function of Ctrl + Shift + letter is related to the function
of Ctrl + letter.

Are you tyring to say Ctrl + F and Ctrl + f are the same thing?

Comment 28

[Chris Pimlott]

Okay, I figured out what you mean in the last part.  Nevermind that bit.

Comment 29

[shadytrees]

Try this link: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html.

Comment 30

[shadytrees]

Or try: http://www.anzwers.org/free/vanwoerkom1/.

Comment 31

[Aaron Leventhal]

I now have listed both of those keyboard on http://www.accessmozilla.org.

Here are some differences that I know about in the trunk keyboard support (vs.
what's listed in the pages):

- find prev: Ctrl+Shift+G on all 3 platforms, Shift+F3 on Windows/Linux
- location bar: Alt+D on Windows/Linux (for compatibility with IE), Accel+L
still works on all 3 platforms, 
- tab switching in tabbed browsing: Ctrl+[shift]+Tab (no longer for frame
navigation). We're probably going to keep it for frame navigation on Mac though,
since [shift]+F6 is not available on mac for that.

If other changes come up, I can put them in this bug.

Comment 32

[piers]

The documentation appears to be there now - under "Mozilla Keyboard Shortcuts" 
in the help contents. Marking WFM.

Comment 33

[piers]

Actually mark it this time :)

Comment 34

[Jesse Ruderman]

This was fixed in bug 191206.

Comment 35

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 191206 ***

Comment 36

[Daniel Wang]

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Comment 37

[Daniel Wang]

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