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

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Post by chefandy »

reaperducer wrote: post #283
chefandy wrote: post #181

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First if all, fuck webpages that play sound unexpectedly. Secondly, what percentage of elevators even play music these days?

Secondly, what percentage of elevators even play music these days? Pretty much every elevator I've been in for the last ten years. I note it mentally because spirit of the music is always at odds with the messages on the display screens. I think the only elevators where I haven't heard music recently are in residential buildings.

huh... no shit. I think I've encountered maybe 2 or 3 elevators that play music in my life, and I'm a middle-aged guy living and working in a major metropolitan area where most non-residential, and many residential buildings have elevators.

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Post by chefandy »

taylorlunt wrote: post #297
reaperducer wrote: post #283

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Secondly, what percentage of elevators even play music these days? Pretty much every elevator I've been in for the last ten years. I note it mentally because spirit of the music is always at odds with the messages on the display screens. I think the only elevators where I haven't heard music recently are in residential buildings.

Maybe it's regional, as I've never heard music in an elevator before.

Same. Weird. I never imagined something so seemingly consistent as elevators having regional dialects.

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Post by retpirato »

Is there any way to make this work as a bookmarklet that I could just click to use on any site?

=== On a side note: There is an alternative to this that does far more. Vimium is available at:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba... It's based on Vim commands so It helps if you have some familiarity with that. It allows you to perform all basic features you would use in a web browser, like scrolling, refresh, forward/back etc; using only keystrokes.

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Post by retpirato »

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…

There is Vim/gVim for going to the beginning of the line.

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Post by Tiksi »

drewzero1 wrote: post #275
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #252

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Other keys that may be non-obvious: - Insert toggles between shifting characters after the cursor to the right and deleting the character to the right of the cursor, replacing it with the new character you typed, but not replacing a newline character. While eg. Caps Lock is global, Insert mode is local to the text input that currently has focus - tab or mouse over to a new window and you've lost Insert mode, tab back…

I had a support call yesterday where the computer was highlighting things and deleting them while the user was going back to change things in a document. I was initially suspecting either a faulty shift key or a double-click setting causing things to be highlighted. When I looked at the user's screen I recognized the block cursor and told him to press Insert. I haven't seen that or heard of it happening for probably…

It still works in the latest macOS too. I end up accidentally hitting in on my work machine in slack all the time.

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Post by Tiksi »

Phrodo_00 wrote: post #246
jspash wrote: post #99

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The Home key is fine if you're on a PC. On a Mac the only time you'll see one is on some extended external keyboards. It's rare, if nonexistent on Mac laptops. So you need to press Cmd+Up. Yes, it's two keys instead of one but I would argue it's actually quicker since they are both usually located on the bottom row, meaning there is less distance for your hand to travel.

> On a Mac the only time you'll see one is on some extended external keyboards. It's rare, if nonexistent on Mac laptops. What do you mean some keyboards? Any PC keyboard you connect to the mac will support home, end, page up, etc. (Unlike buttons 4 and up on mice)

The mouse button thing drove me mad at first, but https://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net/ can fix it and give you the expected functionality.

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Post by remix2000 »

fortran77 wrote: post #228
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…

Many Apple keyboards have no "home" button.

Fn+Left Arrow emulates HOME on most Mac keebs lacking that key. Hope it works on your too :)

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Post by IggleSniggle »

majkinetor wrote: post #294
TekMol wrote: post #193

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The problem with plugins is that they give full control over your browsing to whoever controls the plugin. I sometimes install plugins myself if the code is open source and it is small enough for me to vet it. I would love vimium, but the code is way too big to vet it myself. I wish there was some party that is trustworthy, vets codebases like these and publish hashes of trusted versions. An alternative would be more…

I think you are being overly paranoid. If you want to fight for security on that level, your computer life must be miserable. You are also missing out a lot of great tools and are way less effective then folks that use them (and thus less competitive). I am all up for great security in OS, emails, browsers, messangers etc, but it has to stop somewhere. Also, this kind of stuff like vimium is so widely used that someb…

I share your perspective, but it's not a good perspective to encourage, imho.

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Post by fortran77 »

remix2000 wrote: post #307
fortran77 wrote: post #228

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Many Apple keyboards have no "home" button.

Fn+Left Arrow emulates HOME on most Mac keebs lacking that key. Hope it works on your too :)

I don't know! I run Windows 10, BTW.
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