A big problem I experience is the lack of web-safe keyboard shortcuts for complex web-apps. If looking for a safe key-combination, you have to consider the supe

A big problem I experience is the lack of web-safe keyboard shortcuts for complex web-apps. If looking for a safe key-combination, you have to consider the superset of OS and Browser combinations and that leaves almost nothing. The gmail approach is for unmodified keys but that only works if you don't have focus in an editable field. The gdocs approach is for menu chords but that sucks for frequent actions and still generates weird dual handling of events by the browser. I'd love a web/browser standards committee to preserve the universal utility of the keyboard. It could ring-fence some application specific shortcuts, give a semantic abstraction of some actions e.g. undo, and standardise mechanisms for os specific remappings. As it is, as more tech comes along, the less usable keyboards become. I am still dumbfounded that the iPad lacks a tab button or any chord for one despite claiming to be usable for word-processing. This basically means no web-app can ever assume a keyboard has a tab key. Gah.