[IxDA Discuss] Hot Key standards

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Hi Steven,

    Maybe I didn't use a good example. Surely my users won't use Ctrl+S very
frequently, but IE's hotkey setting includs almost from Ctrl+A to Ctrl+Z,
and from F1 to F12. For example, one of my friends likes to use Ctrl+N to
open a new tab in IE7 and many of my users like to use Ctrl+N to creat a new
file in the application. We don't have an overview of  how users use IE's
hotkeys.
    So it's hard to decide whether to override IE's hotkeys or not.

Yang

2007/7/31, Steven Pautz <spautz at gmail.com>:
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> On 7/30/07, Yang Zhenyi <yzy205 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > For some user, they are familiar with IE and may use Ctrl S to save a
> > web page, but for other users, they may like to use Ctrl S to save their
> > works in our application. How to deal with this conflict? Isthere any
> > methods for setting hot key for an web-based application?
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> I don't have any data on this, but Gmail overrides IE's <Ctrl S> hotkey
> while writing an email (it saves a draft). Before they implemented this
> override, I would hit <Ctrl S> without thinking, then curse slightly as IE's
> useless-to-me Save Webpage dialog popped up. I was ecstatic when Google
> finally overrode <Ctrl S> to save a draft -- but that's only because it
> matched my personal goal and context.
>
> Will your users ever want/need to save your application's webpage as a
> regular file?
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> If saving a file via the browser doesn't support any user needs or goals,
> I think it could actually be preferable to override it. There's no reason to
> devote a hot key -- even a standard, near-ubiquitous one -- to an operation
> nobody needs or wants to perform, in my opinion.
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> Steven Pautz
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