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alternatives: * alert if any form filled by user wasn't submitted (in case site doesn't do that already) * let 99% of user who don't know what they did (they
by smoothdeveloper 10y ago
alternatives:
* alert if any form filled by user wasn't submitted (in case site doesn't do that already)
* let 99% of user who don't know what they did (they are in minority compared to number of times backspace is pressed to actually navigate back) retype their form if they don't navigate forward (which recovers their input, or should)
* add a third hand to human race so it doesn't take all the hands to navigate back from keyboard
* lure lenovo to restore the back / forward keys on thinkpads and make that implemented on most keyboards
- Nexxxeh 10y ago>lure lenovo to restore the back / forward keys on thinkpads and make that implemented on most keyboards The number of times I've accidentally hit the back-a-page button on my old X201, and wiped my in-progress form entry... They smooshed those keys right around the arrow keys. The arrow keys I use to jumping around text. That's worse than having a dual-use for backspace to me. Backspace is far enough away that it's not hit by accident.
- jamespo 10y agoHitting them by accident is very rare for me - I love them on my x220, even more so when you can map them in emacs to switch buffer.
- smoothdeveloper 10y agoYou can hit the other "forward" key to recover everything in a good browser and/or websites which don't do silly things (99.99% of cases). It really feels chromium team should install telemetry: * how many unsubmitted forms edits lost by mistake * how many backspace keystroke to do "history-back" They should also consider alt-gr + left as "back-history", using two hands for this could be avoided this way.
- saalweachter 10y agoYes, because "Chrome phones home with all form data/keystrokes" wouldn't hit the top of HN.