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Web apps are too complicated to rely on form input changes as a stand-in for user state. Good idea about the space/enter thing, I'll file a bug.

• userbinator 10y ago
  Good idea about the space/enter thing, I'll file a bug. I was being sarcastic. I seriously hope you are too.
  • DonHopkins 10y ago
    "But not that sarcastic, to be honest with you."
  • mercer 10y ago
    I hope he was not. As a 'power user' I use GleeBox for keyboard navigation to links that match the text I enter. And as a power user, I've occasionally accidentally navigated away from a page by using space/enter while I was focused on a link without realizing it. Or backspace in the wrong context. Considering that I never intentionally used the space/enter action to navigate to a link, I wouldn't mind browsers removing this. I rarely encounter people who are so incredibly unsympathetic to the difficulty others face in using technology (even 'power users' like myself, apparently). Surely there's a point where perhaps we should at least consider changing our approach, when what works for us does not work for many (most?) other people. I haven't met a single non-power-user who actively used backspace to navigate back to the previous page, for example. At the risk of getting too personal, but with the memory of seeing my mother and grandmother actually crying because something they cared about disappeared for some reason that only I understood: please find something else to feel superior about, or just shut up and feel smug by yourself. It's difficult and frustrating enough already for many people to adapt to the rapid technological changes around them.