Closed Bug 162360 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

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

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 95307

People

(Reporter: jonasj, Assigned: aaronlev)

Details

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?
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?
> 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 :-)
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 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: Keyboard: Navigation → User events and focus handling
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