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Ask HN: Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube?

#21

I use k instead of the space bar for a long time.

Same. I can't remember why exactly I switched, but I recall space bar being more of a gamble whether I would pause/unpause or scroll down the screen. K seemed to work better.

For me, if the play/pause button has focus, then the video starts playing for half a second and then pauses, because the button activation and the hotkey cancel each other. "k" does not have this issue.

Re: Ask HN: Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube?

#23
Space bar is hilarious for me on YouTube/Firefox. Some times it gets into a certain focus state (play button focussed?) and hitting space bar will briefly pause it, then resume playback. Hilarity ensues as I scramble, pausing a few times to realize the issue, and change the focus to something else by clicking the video canvas then press spacebar again for success.

Re: Ask HN: Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube?

#25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is indeed more. And there is one hotkey to rule them all, pressing "?" which shows all hotkeys. "?" is one hotkey I keep pressing in a lot of random contexts, just to see what it does. In many applications it shows all the hotkeys, or if you add some modifier like shift or alt.

Apparently ? is the new F1

F1 is now occupied by the native applications help page. Web applications/pages then need to adopt a different one. "?" kind of also make the UX a bit more obvious, honestly. F1 is based around tradition, "?" is based on the idea that you have no idea.

Re: Ask HN: Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine it has something to do with the keyboard shortcuts for video player controls, which I'm going to list because I think they're neat and was very excited when I discovered them. space - play/pause j - skip back k - play/pause l - skip forward 0-9 - skip to the n/10th point of the video m - mute f - fullscreen t - "theater mode" which is the bigger-but-not-full-screen video size I'm sure there are others, but…

There is indeed more. And there is one hotkey to rule them all, pressing "?" which shows all hotkeys. "?" is one hotkey I keep pressing in a lot of random contexts, just to see what it does. In many applications it shows all the hotkeys, or if you add some modifier like shift or alt.

Pressing "?" in Gmail shows a large help window with tons of shortcuts (you need to have keyboard shortcuts enabled under Settings > General for this to work).
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