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There's a financial modeling in Excel competition held each year that awards a golden keyboard without an F1 key to the winner.
(slightly larger photo of the golden keyboard: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CULeDw8XIAAo0-U.png )
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for me it's ⌘+W vs ⌘+Q in Firefox: the first closes the current tab, the second the whole browser which takes some time to restart. Solved it now with an add-on
All the worse if you're used to readline / emacs keybindings, where ^W is "delete word". Editing a Web form and suddenly having the entire tab disappear is less than gruntling.
Business Insider has annoying anti-adblocker popups. Is there some way to block websites that do this? I tried living without adblocker for a while, but I started getting some very not safe for work ads from dhgate all over the place. Just because I buy electronics doesn't mean I want ads for lingerie...
My stylesheet is here; you can install it with the Stylish browser extension: https://gist.github.com/oxguy3/3338da5c38348c2a6e72
I wish I could remove "F1" from Chrome: I'm in the middle of a lot of tabs, reading them after each other and accidentially pressing F1 instead of ESC and a new useless help tab obens on the far right. Luckily if I close it immediately without navigating, Chrome is clever enough to return me to the last tab
https://gist.github.com/blockoperation/5ec91d666e670e39584d2...
In my view, there are many insights like this to be had by physically studying product users a bit more. The startup community has built a strong habit of studying users before a new solution is adopted, but not as much after. The insights designers get from just watching someone use a product are always delightful. The idea is basically ethnography for design. ( https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the…
So it is very hard to trade-off the momentum of a three decades old standard just to delight particular subsets of power users.
Not to mention the other side of it: why was help so slow and aggravating? Were there ways to make it non-modal and faster. Unsurprisingly, that's been the focus where Office has tried to make an impact, trying to speed up Help and make it less obnoxious over the years, rather than change up a three decade old keyboard shortcut.
This should really be solved in software... However, I remember trying to map capslock to control on windows a few years back. It involved becoming an administrator and entering an opaque hexadecimal key into the registry. Simply popping off the key is probably easier. Oh, on linux it boils down to "setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps", which doesn't require root...
This should really be solved in software... However, I remember trying to map capslock to control on windows a few years back. It involved becoming an administrator and entering an opaque hexadecimal key into the registry. Simply popping off the key is probably easier. Oh, on linux it boils down to "setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps", which doesn't require root...
> This should really be solved in software And this software is called "Excel". This should really be solved in software called "Excel". As in: remove functionality from F1
if the view doesn't get obstructed and you could simply tap F1 a second time (or Esc) and instantly be back to what you were doing, i think the UX problem would be solved.
in firefox, i sometimes hit F12 on accident -- but i can just tap it again to close the dev tools, even if it hasn't finished loading. that's decent UX.
Firefox on Linux has a similar issue. A very common shortcut Ctrl-W is right next to Ctrl-Q, which completely closes the application, and there's no built-in way to turn it off! Which makes the software completely unusable unless you install a separate plugin that disables Ctrl-Q shortcut. It's really amazing that Mozilla doesn't think this is a bug.
I don't use Excel very often and I need my F1 key for other tools, but I've had capslock removed for years.
