125817 - need "back" button event mapped to delete key

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Adam Moore]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205
BuildID:    20002020516

The back button event is commonly mapped to the backspace button in
Windows-based browsers.  The Mac has a delete key there instead. IE correctly
maps the delete key to the back event, but Mozilla doesn't.  There appears to be
no single key stroke that will take me to the previous page.  I use this feature
all of the time, so it me want to return to IE .. almost.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to page 1
2. go to another page
3. hit the delete key

Actual Results:  nothing

Expected Results:  return to page 1

Comment 1

[John Levon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69981 ***

Comment 2

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Reopening. Bug 69981 is about removing the backspace-goes-back keybinding on
Win32. This bug is about adding a delete-goes-back keybinding on Mac OS.

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

->ben

Comment 4

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92920 ***

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

this is not a dup of 92920, it isn't even the same platform. ->reopen

Comment 6

[Peter Trudelle]

->ben for real.

Comment 7

[timeless]

1. so when  i press del [x>] we'll go backwards? that makes lots of sense
2. when i press delete (which means delete) we'll go backwards? - insert 
standard rant from mpt
3. i'm pretty sure that this will be handled by some bug against event handling 
to mismap delete

Comment 8

[Frankie]

IMO, this should be WONTFIX or INVALID. Very few Mac users would want this
behavior, only a small group of Windows switchers. The expected "back" is
command-leftarrow.

Comment 9

[Adam Moore]

If no Mac user uses this, why do IE, OmniWeb, and Safari all do exactly this?  
I'm suprised at the resistance to fixing this.  To me, it is a no-brainer... if 
all other major browsers work this way, it is probably the way to go.  If you 
really believe nobody would use this feature, perhaps you need a usability test.

Comment 10

[JongAm Park]

There should be some note about this issue.

Pressing delete key twice when you write in a text field on a web page, it should not go to previous 
web page. Instead it should remove the text in the text field.
However, current Camino goes back to a previous web page.

Comment 11

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

This bug should be WONTFIX. DEL going backwards is unexpected behavior (don't
give me the IE does it arguments) and it could cause dataloss if someone thinks
they are in a form and they aren't and the cache expires when the page goes
back. Definately WONTFIX.

This was one of the most annoying behaviors on IE and I and many others saw it
as a bug.