104494 - deRTM 6.2: <BACKSPACE> key does not work to open previous URL

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P1)

Description

[lchiang]

- start DE 6.2 build (2001-10-10)  [Gecko/20011008]
- open a URL (e.g. www.netscape.de)
- click on any link on that page
- use the <BACKSPACE> key to return to previous URL

RESULT:
nothing happens

EXPECTED:
<BACKSPACE> key must work (hotkey for _back_ botton on browser

NOTE:
This is regression. This function works properly in previous 6.1 version of 
netscape



------- Bug moved to this database by [e-mail] 2001-10-12 16:04 -------

This bug previously known as bug 10425 at http://bugscape.netscape.com/
http://bugscape.netscape.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10425
Originally filed under the Browser product and Browser-General component.

The original reporter of this bug does not have
   an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved
   it here, [e-mail].
   Previous reporter was [e-mail].

Comment 1

[lchiang]

reassign to default component

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->keybd nav.

aaronl, i cannot remember whether the Backspace key was ever implemented to go
Back [in session history].

fwiw, it doesn't work for me, using a linux mozilla debug build from 11 oct.

i know there's a bug request for this...lemme search.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This bug is invalid (in Mozilla)
This backspace key mapping is removed (since 2001-07-24 with bug 69981)
(backspace/delete is mapped by default to go back)

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

and we have bug 92246 (Reporter: [e-mail]):
[rfe] backspace should page up 

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

Yes, there was a mutiny by the back-in-history-backspace-haters, who seized a
moment and switched it off.

Rather than having a war, we just let them do it.

Then a bunch of people who didn't realize what happend got pissed about it
later. Someone filed a bug to say it should go up. A bunch of people mentioned
that you can customize your own hotkeys in mozilla, blah blah blah.

I think there are 4 groups:
- Backspace should go back in history , like IE
- Backspace should go up a page, like 4.7
- Backspace should do nothing except delete chars backwards in a textfield. This
group often mentions that new users may have no idea what happened if they hit
backspace when they thought they were in a textfield but weren't. They also
mention that you'll be able to customize it more easily someday if we have a
front end for customizing keystrokes. 
- Backspace doesn't matter to the 4th group one way or another. Either that, or
they're don't care enough to fight one of the other factions.

We don't really have a way to vote for these things, do we?

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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