Re: A modified keyboard for a data-centric web?

< Next Message | Back to archived message list | Previous Message >

Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 320

Posted by sjoerd
1999-09-12 09:13:11

And we’d need Shift+Enter to begin a new child element.

That’s all of the 3 modifiers we have, and that’s confusing.
That’s why I’d like 3 new keys, next to eachother.
The first goes back to the parent, the second adds a new
element, and the third adds the first child element.

I mean, the web has proven to be stronger than Microsoft,
Microsoft can add 3 (unusefull) keys, so why can’t the web?
I have some room left above the cursor keys…

One alternative could be ctrl+left,ctrl+down and
ctrl+right. I think that’s better than alt+enter,
ctrl+enter and shift+enter.

List-items in editors usually only use enter, and have
ctrl+left and ctrl+right to move an element up
or down a level, but this would usually not be allowed
in XML.

Back to archived message list