Comments on: Keyboard Enabling Web Applications

By: Ibuildings techPortal: Keyboard Enabling Web Applications | DreamNest - Technology | Web | Net

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:00:45 +0000

[...] the Ibuildings techPortal Vito Chin has written up a quick tutorial on keyboard-enabling your web applications with jQuery and PHP. It’s time to bring the [...]

By: BinaryKitten

BinaryKitten — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:38:39 +0000

there are few optimisations required in the jquery.. but that is mainly due to the difference in scoping within javascript compared to php, but for the most part a good post :)

By: Ibuildings techPortal: Keyboard Enabling Web Applications | Webs Developer

Ibuildings techPortal: Keyboard Enabling Web Applications | Webs Developer — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:02:15 +0000

[...] the Ibuildings techPortal Vito Chin has written up a quick tutorial on keyboard-enabling your web applications with jQuery and PHP. It’s time to bring the [...]

By: Vito

Vito — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:53:47 +0000

Yes, there is definitely a need to tread carefully when it comes to shortcuts.It is a good idea to explore how your target browser deals with keyboard shortcuts (Firefox's). In certain situations, it is not suitable or convenient to use a single key, especially with web applications that requires most single keys to be free for text input. Be aware that you're dealing with an evolutionary phase with the role of web applications. If you're in touch with the audience of your web application, then their input (pardon the pun) helps.

By: Michael Stillwell

Michael Stillwell — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:31:30 +0000

Note that it’s generally not a good idea to bind key + single modifier to anything, as this will almost certainly conflict with the built-in key bindings of some browser or OS. Both Firefox and Safari have changed the modifiers required to activate accesskeys for this reason. For example see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477. Neither Google Mail nor Google Reader bind key + modifier to anything. Google Docs does though, perhaps because it has more of the feel of a webapp than a web site and thus taking over key + modifier combinations is less unexpected.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:22:32 +0000

If you are not using jQuery, this is possible using a standalone library called shortcut.js

By: jQuery shortaccesskey plugin at SANIsoft – PHP for E Biz

jQuery shortaccesskey plugin at SANIsoft – PHP for E Biz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:04:52 +0000

[...] came across an article about keyboard enabling web applications today on my rounds of daily reading. This prompted me to dig out some code which I had written [...]

By: abcphp.com

abcphp.com — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:46:45 +0000

Keyboard Enabling Web Applications…

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 se…