in reply to Re: Better keyboard-driven navigation, any?
in thread Better keyboard-driven navigation, any?

I personally believe that "to each its own" is still a valid principle: and I generally feel more at ease with a keyboard with 100 or so keys than with a mouse with three for many tasks, of which browsing "the site" is only one out of many. Perhaps this was not clear from the start, and I apologize. The exact reason why I cannot tell, or perhaps it would be too long and irrelevant here: anyway, I'm not that extremely keyboard-centric as a ratpoison user, but I find that people tend to overuse the mouse making their own lives more difficult than necessary; for one thing is "without much of a hassle" and one thing is "efficiently" and... moving back and forth from the rodents, and clicking on menus and so on often doesn't make for the latter. No way!

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Re^3: Better keyboard-driven navigation, any?
by Erez (Priest) on Jul 22, 2008 at 18:17 UTC
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      I personally believe that it's interesting: if nothing else I was expecting something very Windows-centric and instead it has to with nothing less then Plan 9... Wow! But then do not misunderstand me: I'll repeat that I'm not that much mouse-o-phobic! At the same time I'll have to reiterate the claim I made on me which is based on observational evidence: for some (many) tasks I'm definitely much more efficient and at ease with the keyboard than with the mouse. Amongst these, using (say) GR. Even more so in the initially described situation: in bed with the Eee.

      Let me stress: I can happily live with the current "setup" using a mixture of keyboard navigation and mousepad tracking, but I'm sure I would have much better an experience if I could, say, press "n" to pass to the next article, "+" to vote ++, "-" to vote --, "p" to review the previous article because upon reading the following one I realized I had misunderstood part of it, and then "a" to check its parent, to be really sure, and so on...

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        Just to explain where I'm coming from, there's a saying among mathematicians (or so I've been told, not being one), that when you can't find a solution to a problem, you need to change the problem. I am trying to suggest you might want to try looking at your issue from a different direction and maybe reap some success there. Exchanging keyboard for mouse is a good way of stepping out and looking over the issue from a different angle, so it might shed some interesting light on some points you are trying to address.

        Stop saying 'script'. Stop saying 'line-noise'.
        We have nothing to lose but our metaphors.

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