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Very funny seeing so called "powerusers" complain they have to unlearn perhaps the most stupid shortcut key in the history of shortcut keys, and instead use ano

by mSparks 10y ago

Very funny seeing so called "powerusers" complain they have to unlearn perhaps the most stupid shortcut key in the history of shortcut keys, and instead use another, much more obvious shortcut key (alt + left) and as a bonus, I just discovered the windows + left key, which is properly awesome on this shiney new(ish) xps 13 (much better than the old rotate screen functionality).

ww520 10y ago
It's funny people are unwilling to learn that Alt-right after a Backspace would go back to previous page with state intact.
- galacticpony 10y ago
  Use the mouse to click on the back button, then.
  - ww520 10y ago
    Mouse click on back need to travel long distance. Why can't you guys just use alt-right after a backspace to restore the previous page?
    - mSparks 10y ago
      Because, as power users, who use both the keyboard and stateful pages, forward "rarely" restores the state and is technically forbidden from doing so. So an accidental thumb tap a touchpad + trying to delete a character produces a wait for the entire app to reload and then get back to where you were - which can take minutes assuming you were lucky and said app hadn't decided to wait 30 minutes to autosave. In fact I had turned off fast tap on the touchpad for exactly this reason, glad I can turn it back on again. If moving the mouse to the backspace button (seriously, the whole point of keyboard shortcuts is for people typing with both hands and not using the mouse) is such a problem, clean the mouse and turn up its sensitivity. Or better yet, get a touchscreen, you'll never want to go back to mister mouse.
    - galacticpony 10y ago
      Because chances are that it doesn't work, for various reasons, some of which are outside the browser vendors control.
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- mSparks 10y ago
  you mean, like, by clicking/touching the back button? Wow, never thought that would need explaining here :(
- galacticpony 10y ago
  It's funny that people like you are editing comments to completely change the meaning, invalidating previous replies. Oh wait, that's not funny. That's sad.
  - ww520 10y ago
    Oh, it's accidental hitting of the Tab key and Enter key. You know. Those pesky browser developers mapped those key completely wrong back in the days. If only they unlink the Tab key and the Enter now and force people to only use the mouse click to submit, life would be so much better. /s
    - mSparks 10y ago
      It's not accidental. its the "unexpected behaviour". Tab, enter etc serve exactly the same purpose all the time. Backspace doing delete one character or delete everything depending on where the mouse is pointing could probably only be beaten for stupidity if pressing the enter key while the mouse is hovering over the close button actually closed the entire browsing session.
- viraptor 10y ago
  On some websites. If they rely on loading special display state based on the anchor in the link, your previous state may be lost.
adiabatty 10y ago
Backspace seemed like a perfectly good shortcut in Windows Explorer to go up one directory. Seems like it was misadapted to the browser context when it was recast as "back".

by mSparks 10y ago

ww520 10y ago

It's funny people are unwilling to learn that Alt-right after a Backspace would go back to previous page with state intact.

galacticpony 10y ago
Use the mouse to click on the back button, then.
- ww520 10y ago
  Mouse click on back need to travel long distance. Why can't you guys just use alt-right after a backspace to restore the previous page?
  - mSparks 10y ago
    Because, as power users, who use both the keyboard and stateful pages, forward "rarely" restores the state and is technically forbidden from doing so. So an accidental thumb tap a touchpad + trying to delete a character produces a wait for the entire app to reload and then get back to where you were - which can take minutes assuming you were lucky and said app hadn't decided to wait 30 minutes to autosave. In fact I had turned off fast tap on the touchpad for exactly this reason, glad I can turn it back on again. If moving the mouse to the backspace button (seriously, the whole point of keyboard shortcuts is for people typing with both hands and not using the mouse) is such a problem, clean the mouse and turn up its sensitivity. Or better yet, get a touchscreen, you'll never want to go back to mister mouse.
  - galacticpony 10y ago
    Because chances are that it doesn't work, for various reasons, some of which are outside the browser vendors control.
- deleted 10y ago
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mSparks 10y ago
you mean, like, by clicking/touching the back button? Wow, never thought that would need explaining here :(
galacticpony 10y ago
It's funny that people like you are editing comments to completely change the meaning, invalidating previous replies. Oh wait, that's not funny. That's sad.
- ww520 10y ago
  Oh, it's accidental hitting of the Tab key and Enter key. You know. Those pesky browser developers mapped those key completely wrong back in the days. If only they unlink the Tab key and the Enter now and force people to only use the mouse click to submit, life would be so much better. /s
  - mSparks 10y ago
    It's not accidental. its the "unexpected behaviour". Tab, enter etc serve exactly the same purpose all the time. Backspace doing delete one character or delete everything depending on where the mouse is pointing could probably only be beaten for stupidity if pressing the enter key while the mouse is hovering over the close button actually closed the entire browsing session.
viraptor 10y ago
On some websites. If they rely on loading special display state based on the anchor in the link, your previous state may be lost.

adiabatty 10y ago

Backspace seemed like a perfectly good shortcut in Windows Explorer to go up one directory. Seems like it was misadapted to the browser context when it was recast as "back".