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A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

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Re: A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

#21

I installed Vimium a few months ago and haven't looked back -> https://vimium.github.io/ Mouseless as well for navigating anywhere on the computer without a mouse -> https://mouseless.click/

i [0] https://tridactyl.xyz/about/

edit: added url

Re: A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

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post #21

I installed Vimium a few months ago and haven't looked back -> https://vimium.github.io/ Mouseless as well for navigating anywhere on the computer without a mouse -> https://mouseless.click/

i [0] https://tridactyl.xyz/about/ edit: added url

Tridactyl is only available for Firefox unfortunately

Re: A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

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post #21

I installed Vimium a few months ago and haven't looked back -> https://vimium.github.io/ Mouseless as well for navigating anywhere on the computer without a mouse -> https://mouseless.click/

i [0] https://tridactyl.xyz/about/ edit: added url

Probably not, use whatever makes you happy!

Re: A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

#24

I installed Vimium a few months ago and haven't looked back -> https://vimium.github.io/ Mouseless as well for navigating anywhere on the computer without a mouse -> https://mouseless.click/

Vimium, (neo)vim and vim key bindings have been life-changing.

Re: A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

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post #11

Incidentally, I've been trying to use the keyboard to scroll webpages recently, and it's a disaster. Nobody does it, apparently. PageUp/PageDown do not work correctly on sites that have a permanent topbar (some of the content is never shown). Cursor up/down often does something unexpected (for example in Mastodon, if you use PageDown several times and then cursor down, you will get yanked back). I think it is a sad r…

I use Space/Shift+Space and PageUp/PageDown and End¹ for vertical scrolling all the time . It’s nowhere near a disaster. I also disable JS by default, which… well, actually that might help sometimes. And hinder other times. Rarely , I find a page that doesn’t use the document scroll area, but makes its own which is not focused, and so you have to focus that (by Tab as many times as necessary, or by clicking) before y…

Just dropping a note to say I appreciate your asterism! :-)

Re: A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Space/Shift+Space and PageUp/PageDown and End¹ for vertical scrolling all the time . It’s nowhere near a disaster. I also disable JS by default, which… well, actually that might help sometimes. And hinder other times. Rarely , I find a page that doesn’t use the document scroll area, but makes its own which is not focused, and so you have to focus that (by Tab as many times as necessary, or by clicking) before y…

Just dropping a note to say I appreciate your asterism! :-)

A few years ago I thought long and hard, tried quite a few different things, and ended up settling on that sequence. And with this in my ~/.XCompose:

     : "—⁂—"
… I can get it by typing `Compose h r`. (“hr” as in , HTML’s Horizontal Rule.)

At one point since then I came across another person on HN that had independently settled on the same three characters (em dash, asterism, em dash).

In my personal dialect of the lightweight markup language I’ve been making, —⁂— is even the syntax for a horizontal rule. :-)

Re: A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

#27
post #21

I installed Vimium a few months ago and haven't looked back -> https://vimium.github.io/ Mouseless as well for navigating anywhere on the computer without a mouse -> https://mouseless.click/

i [0] https://tridactyl.xyz/about/ edit: added url

Vimium has better smooth scrolling. I really, really want to use Tridactyl, but I just can't stomach their smooth-scrolling implementation.

Re: A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation

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I installed Vimium a few months ago and haven't looked back -> https://vimium.github.io/ Mouseless as well for navigating anywhere on the computer without a mouse -> https://mouseless.click/

For macOS users, I highly recommend ShortCat: https://shortcat.app/ ShortCat uses the accessibility API to put Vimium-style keyboard links on buttons and text fields in any app. I find that Vimium works faster in Firefox than using ShortCat to click around websites, so I use both, but ShortCat technically should do everything (clicking-wise) that Vimium does.

ShortCat is an incredible recommendation, thank you!
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