• Keyboard Enabling Web Applications July 2, 2009

    Introduction

    It’s time to bring the keyboard back! When we first started doing things on the web, there wasn’t much to do. There were documents with hyperlinks that we can click on but that’s about it; that was 15 years ago. Thanks to the growth of sophisticated server-side tools such as PHP and client-side tools such as jQuery, we are now able to do so much more. Today, many traditional desktop applications have migrated to the web. During this migration, we seem to have neglected the keyboard and I think we’re missing out on a a great time-saving route to interact with the application. So, that is what this tutorial is about, getting the keyboard more exposure in user interaction for web applications.

    (more…)