Brion Vibber wrote:
It's not necessary to assign a key to every
conceivable function!
Overriding browser functionality, however, is never ever acceptable.
I'm sorry if this seems awkward to you, but I assure you it's a lot
more awkward to have the computer to unexpected things in response to
standard keystrokes.
No conflicting access keys will be kept.
That's certainly a rational approach to the matter. If people want these
strange key-combinations they should make the settings themselves on
their own browsers without affecting the way that other browsers function.
I seldom use these, but when I choose to do so I expect them to work in
exactly the way my browser tells me, rather than having them reflect
some nerd's idiosyncrasies.
Ec