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To me it's almost a bug...
Authored by: Dephex Twin on Feb 05, '03 12:26:17PM

It's actually really annoying for me when I am navigating the web. I use cmd+arrows to go back and forth all the time, and whenever I go to a page with a Quicktime movie, I always have to remember that I can't use that to go back, because it always causes Quicktime to play in reverse instead of moving my browser back. Hmm, what was the most likely thing I wanted to do there?



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To me it's almost a bug...
Authored by: tim1724 on Feb 05, '03 01:57:25PM

Keep in mind that the standard Mac OS X keyboard commands for back/forward are command-[ and command-]. You'll find that these work in Safari, Help Center, the Finder, and a number of other applications. (Note that these keys aren't listed in the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines .. it unfortunately does not have a very long list of standard key equivalents. But when the Finder, web browser, and help system all use the same key combo, then it's pretty safe to expect others to do so also.)

Safari allows command-arrows as an additional shortcut, but only in situations when command-arrow shortcuts are not already being used for something else. For example, when you're editing text in a text field, command-left means "go to beginning of line" .. but command-[ will still work even when editing text. The same goes for when you're viewing a QuickTime movie .. the command-arrow keyboard commands are already taken by QT, but command-[ will still go back a page.



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