Re: Warning - Firefox v4 not compatible with HMC 7.7.1

Hear, hear!

I have a Galaxy Tablet that I use for most of my work-hours internet-related activities now (this message is being typed on one). I dearly love the technology. The implementation: not so much, because someone decided that soft keyboards should not have function keys (nor Ctrl, nor Esc, nor Alt). Therefore, our standard is now reduced to basically the printable characters plus Enter. Even TAB is iffy, and END's function is to make the device sleep. :(

It's a huge limitation that makes terminal emulation alomst impossible (though some software adds reprieve by including a special means of entering Ctrl/Esc keys. The idea of least-common-demoninator should not apply to upgrade paths (assuming that new technology = upgrade), but somehow it seems to.

"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5/9/2011 2:03 PM, Bryce Martin wrote:

Why can't the "standard" function keys change? You are trying to

adapt to

the web... so you might have to change the way things worked

before...

*gasp* change? Yep, change. Remember, when you are developing for

the

web, you are now in the browser's territory...so you have to play by

the

browser's rules.

With IE I didn't have to "play by the browser's rules". Instead, I was

able to write applications that my users were able to use with minimal
retraining. New and shiny is worthless if it isn't as productive as
old
and rusty.

Plus, I see no reason for browsers not to make all those keys
accessible
to JavaScript. It's lazy coding on their part, and I don't know why my

users should lose keys on their keyboard just because somebody decided
it didn't fit this week's idea of a standard.

I can understand changing the paradigm when the device changes - e.g.,
tablets - but browsers have perfectly working keyboards attached to
them
and I ought to be able to use every key on the keyboard.

Joe
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