Delirium wrote:
Timwi wrote:
No, "Select All" is Alt+A, not Ctrl+A, and the website currently
overrides it, which is quite irritating. This is using Firefox 0.8
under Linux. Perhaps it is Ctrl+A under other operating systems, which
is the source of the confusion?
How accesskeys are implemented, including whether or not they override
existing shortcuts, is up to the browser. There are several bugs open
surrounding Firefox's accesskeys, for several different OSes. (On Mac it
seems accesskeys do not override Firefox shortcuts.) It's in Firefox and
other browsers that conflicts need to be sorted out, not on websites
providing accesskeys.
My only complaint is that site says “Alt A”, etc, when accesskeys can
in fact be implemented with any modifier. On Firefox Mac the default is
ctrl. (I don't have any better ideas, though. Really, again, it should
probably be the browser's job to tell me what the accesskeys + modifiers
are for a page. In the mean time, I'm happy with it saying alt since
that is the most common modifier.)
Nathan