A Martinez wrote:
> 
> Jason Kersey wrote:
>...
> > Wrong.  The point is that this is a convienient way for IE users to
> > get a feel for our product.  Just because IE does it doesn't make it
> > bad.
> 
> Well, then wake up and add F3 right now. I use this shorcut in every
> app except in Mozilla where some genius thought that it would be much
> funnier to map it to Ctrl+G. "Find Next" = Ctrl+G, every windows user
> will be pleased to have to use that shorcut instead of the standard
> one.

And the standard one is what, exactly? It's certainly not F3: in
Internet Explorer and even Windows Explorer, F3 doesn't Find Next, it
opens the Search sidebar.

> Then go ahead and search for all the request to add Alt+D,

Alt+D is worth considering, because accel+L (the current shortcut) is so
awkward as to be relatively useless. Ctrl+Tab works, as long as you
didn't use it earlier to cycle through frames.

>                                                            and
> Shift+click also as in IE.

Mapping Shift+click to anything is bad, because it prevents
implementation of Shift+drag to temporarily disable links so that you
can select their text (like in 4.x for Mac).

>                            If you only add backspace but leave away
> these two shortcuts you will find that 99% of IE users find Mozilla
> very hard to use.

I agree -- of all the keyboard shortcuts we might want to copy from
MSIE, Backspace is probably the worst.

-- 
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component default assignee thing
<http://mozilla.org/>


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