Easy Keyboard Shortcuts for Web Pages

[ Thanks to Lee Schlesinger for this link. ]

"Web application developers should strive to provide as good an interface for their web apps as other programmers do with desktop programs. One simple enhancement is to provide keyboard shortcuts to main functions, as sites such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Twitter do. Experienced users welcome keyboard shortcuts because they offer the ability to work faster, letting users perform operations without having to remove their hands from the keyboard.

"Since the Web?s early days, HTML has offered access keys, which let you quickly navigate to a specific field by means of an ALT+key combo. More recently, and more sophisticated, are hot keys, which are specific to a single application and let users invoke any function or perform any given procedure. You?ll probably want to use both types of shortcuts in your web pages, so let?s quickly look at access keys, then move on to implementing hot keys, first by hand, then in a much easier way by using the Keyboard Shortcuts JavaScript library, either directly or through jQuery."

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