Website keyboard shortcuts
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Jul 7, 2006
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I'm a huge fan of websites that use keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys, like Gmail and Bloglines. These shortcuts are made possible with some relatively simple javascript. I've been thinking about adding shortcuts to my site for a while, but I'm really not a fan of javascript: It slows things down, it doesn't always work, and I'd have to learn it.
But then I learned about accesskeys (actually I saw it on Mark Pilgrim's site first). It's pretty simple: Just add accesskey="[key]" onto any A, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, LABEL, LEGEND, or TEXTAREA. Then the user can press ALT+accesskey (CTRL+accesskey on Mac) to use the shortcut. So far, I've setup ALT+1 to go to the homepage. Perhaps there will be more to follow.
Update (2006-07-08 8:20am): This works fine in Firefox. But in Internet Explorer, the user needs to press enter after the accesskey combo. #technology
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