162360 - [RFE] One-key session history (back/forward) navigation

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 95307

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Jonas Jørgensen]

One-key session history navigation would be extremely useful. Especially for
users of international keyboard layouts where Alt+arrow key only works with the
*left* Alt.

Opera uses Z for Back and X for Forward. Why don't we?

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Recently there was a huge war over Backspace going back in history. The people
who were against it said that it was too easy to lose data. Novice users
especially would hit backspace in a form. Beginning users would often get
confused by this, and just as worrisome is the potential for losing what was
typed in a form.

So would it be with Z and X. Perhaps single keystroke shortcuts could be a pref.
However, that said, I'm all for single keystroke shortcuts. There's an RFE
somewhere. If we can find a bug, I'd like to put it in the chart at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/planning-ahead-for-accessibility.html
under One Handed Typing.

How do you think we should get around the problem?

Comment 2

[Jonas Jørgensen]

> Recently there was a huge war over Backspace going back in history. The people
> who were against it said that it was too easy to lose data.

I was (and am) very much against Backspace going back.

> So would it be with Z and X.

Not to the same extent. You very often want to hit Backspace right after
focusing (or attempting to focus) a text field; much more so than Z and X. In
that case, I feel the annoyance outweighs the convenience, but in this case I
think it's the other way around. (Maybe I'm being a bit inconsistent here ;-))

> Perhaps single keystroke shortcuts could be a pref.

Dunno if it's just because I've been reading mpt's blog too much, but I somehow
really don't like the idea of adding more prefs.

> How do you think we should get around the problem?

Let's just implement Z and X and see if anybody complains :-)

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Jonas, I hope you don't mind that I mark this as a DUP of bug 95307
In the end it would be great to support the Opera/Lynx style single key
shortcuts, as a pref. It would be great for accessibility.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95307 ***

Comment 4

[Jonas Jørgensen]

v