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Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by TomJansen »

cool-RR wrote: post #68

The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…

I know that it a dedicated button for keyboards, but on phone keyboards this is still a missing functionality which I really miss!

Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by derefr »

retube wrote: post #156
cool-RR wrote: post #68

The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…

After 20 years of using keyboards, I have, thanks to this comment, discovered the "Home" button.

For Apple 101-key keyboard users, who don’t have a “Home” key: try Cmd+Up (and Cmd+Down.)

Bonus: also try Ctrl+E (and Ctrl+A) in text fields, or on the command-line.

(Both of these carry over to iOS, if you’re curious. I just tested them with the iPad keyboard-folio thing.)

Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by [deleted] »

colmvp wrote: post #79
cool-RR wrote: post #68

The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…

Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers, so I'm kind of surprised that your comment actually 'fooled' people. It was very obvious sarcasm.

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Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by cecilpl2 »

Kuraj wrote: post #167
ithkuil wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I wish somebody invented a sarcasm punctuation mark /s

I always felt that this diluted the sarcasm and was a bit like explaining a joke

Well it's not like the entire point of sarcasm is to mean something other than what you say.

Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by tom_ »

Angostura wrote: post #129
FractalParadigm wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm not mistaken, Fn + Left Arrow is Home on a Mac. Similar to Fn + up/down is Page Up/Down, and IIRC Fn + Right is End.

CMD - up-arrow takes you to top of page.

On OS X, this also moves the insertion point, which Home doesn't.

Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator

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Post by minikites »

TomJansen wrote: post #201
cool-RR wrote: post #68

The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…

I know that it a dedicated button for keyboards, but on phone keyboards this is still a missing functionality which I really miss!

Tap the status bar on any iPhone?
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