alt Hacker NewsOne trend that I can’t stand currently is the obsession with keyboard shortcuts everywhere even to the point of overriding browser defaults. Cmd+F focusing on the site’s search input instead of letting me search in the page with the browser’s search functionality (looking at you github and Linear).
I generally don’t need any fancy keyboard shortcuts on a website. I have a mouse, I can just click around.
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eviks • last Monday at 5:00 AM
What do you think about search override on some dysfunctional modern forums that can't display more than 3 replies, so if you used the built in browser search you wouldn't be able to find anything in a discussion?
But also, Vivaldi is awesome here is allowing you to block overrides for specific shortcuts so you Ctrl F is always yours
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To the opposite, I'm a heavy user of keyboard shortcuts everywhere they exist. OTOH taking over the browser shortcuts, and especially the search, is something that I very much dislike.