Be Excellent To Each Other

I am both irritated when it goes back when I'm trying to delete something, and irritated that it no longer goes back when I'm not. I'm a UI designer's dream.

Bang this into an extension and I think you're good to go. Not tested in any way so it might well set your house on fire or something.

My Chromebook has started nagging me with messages that the lock combination of SEARCH+L isn't going to work anymore and I need to use a different combination. However, SEARCH+L still works in the meantime so of course I haven't been using the new combination or even committed it to memory.

It seems like such a bizarre, random thing to change.

Removing a shortcut that has been around for decades... Is an interesting choice.

Still, as I never liked chrome, it's not an issue for me.

Firefox still allows it, but if you look at images on imgur.com the backspace-to-go-back shortcut no longer works.

I don't agree with Chrome removing the shortcut, but it's their choice. What I really fucking hate is when webmasters override keyboard shortcuts for their own ends. See also: php.net and using the / as a shortcut to their Find box, over-riding Firefox's "find on page" functionality. Hnnnnnngh.

Also outlook deciding that CTRL-F 'find' should actually be 'forward'.

The Beex keyboard shortcuts are really good (and never used)!

the what now?

See?

Fortunately, there's some comments on the JS file, or I wouldn't remember them either.

cool.

I just Alt+R'd the shit out of this topic

I think I typed those up to post somewhere once.. Now, where did I put them?

Alt+8

I don't mind those quite so much as they are unlikely to conflict with browser shortcuts

Like some of the links (but not all) on the BBC News site. I always use middle-click to open them in a new tab, but some override this behaviour and open it in the same tab. Minor annoyance, but an unnecessary one.

Is this discrimination?
http://twycrosszoo.org/red-heads-go-fre ... -utan-day/

For zardoz. Maybe. Gingers, like uggos, are not a protected characteristic. You do what you want with them. Not that z is an uggo

Plus it says you can dye your hair.

See you there!

I expect they have very solid data that many more people do it by accident than do it on purpose.

I suspect you only use backspace for back these days if you started using browsers back in the Netscape days, and we're a minority of internet users now. If you think about it, it's a terrible shortcut. It isn't semantically correct at all (why does deleting text equate to going back to the last page?), it's not very ergonomic (most people are right handed, so have their right hand on the mouse while browsing, so a shortcut on the right side of the keyboard isn't very comfortable) and the consequences of accidentally pressing it when the focus isn't where you think it is are bad (you go back and potentially lose text you entered when trying to delete some text.)

I think this is a good change, personally.

Arrow pointing left, innit?

It was Rich's idea!

Get him boys!

How many boys should we get him?

Cool story bro.

I am not rotating these JPEGs out of annoyance at Grim...'s refusal to admit BeeX is broken.

Yeah well, Macs aren't compatible.

Macs do have a left facing arrow, though. But I maintain (keycap aside) that there's no meaningful semantic similarity between what going back does and what backspace does.

And of course, when they are on their side, the arrow wouldn't point the right way anyway.

All the boys, obviously.

Move the cursor back, move the page back, is about as close as I can get. Or the word 'back' or something.

Mine has an arrow.

How long do you think it will be until this thread is flooded with pictures of peoples keyboards?

Which reminds me...

The Amiga does too, which is what counts.

'Course, running Chrome on a Chromebook as God intended, I have a real, physical back button. Neener neener.

I avoided that because mine's disgusting

Not quite sure why that justifies you doing a child's impression of a police car though...

My HP laptop has an arrow on the backspace.. I have never used it to go back a page.

Just to join in...

An X inside an arrow courtesy of Microsoft.

I needn't bother as my keyboard is the same as devilman's

As is mine except I have a calculator button (natch) above the backspace key.

Mine has an arrow and the word backspace.

I always wondered if it was used because you're effectively going back one space in your browsing history. Tenuous, I know.

No, and no.

Redheads are a minority, so for it to be discrimination they'd have to make it so redheads pay double. But they're not an oppressed minority anyway so the point is moot.

It's a friends and family discount for people who are related to the orangutans.

Is that going to stop working?

Had some bootleg famicom carts delivered today. These are easily my favourites -

Aww, man. I gotta get me some Ropocop.

Joe & Mac, kings of the Jungle!

Not sure what Amazon are trying to tell me about my computing habits...

Weren't they caveman ninjas?

No. You're thinking of Tarzan and Jane.