The thing is, this isn't a problem space that's unique to web apps. I find nothing more frustrating than native OS X apps that bind over system-wide shortcuts (

The thing is, this isn't a problem space that's unique to web apps. I find nothing more frustrating than native OS X apps that bind over system-wide shortcuts (I'm looking at you, Adobe products). Web apps have a slightly trickier turf to navigate due to also having to watch out for web browser default shortcuts, but that doesn't suddenly make the problem unsolvable. The problem isn't that keyboard shortcuts for web apps are inherently bad. The problem is application designers who choose their keyboard shortcuts poorly.