<span class="q">On 21/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jan Claeys</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@janc.be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lists@janc.be</a>> wrote:</span><span class="q">
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Op zaterdag 21-10-2006 om 08:07 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Arwyn<br>Hainsworth:<br>> As far as I'm concerned, fixing a bug that can cause data loss is more<br>> important than keeping backwards compatibility.<br>
> You might say I'm slightly biased in this matter however, since I've<br>> lost data to this bug a number of times now and I was very pleased to<br>> hear it was finally fixed.<br><br>I have lost more data by accidentally pressing Ctrl-W or by clicking the
<br>close tab and close window buttons. Should they be removed/disabled<br>too?</blockquote></span><div><br>Are
you serious? I mean I'd have to be pretty drunk (maybe the fact that I
don't drink explains why I've never lost data this way) to accidentaly
press Ctrl+W when entering text...
<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Seriously, as I explained in the bug report there *is* a way to fix your
<br>problem, but it is *not* by disabling everything that could possibly
<br>cause it, because that would render Firefox useless. And only disabling<br>some of these actions is nothing but masking the problem so that people<br>don't see the problem enough to complain.</blockquote></span><div>
<br>And I replied, maybe we should keep the rest of this discussion in one place?
<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Having 'backspace' do anything other than 'delete last character' in
<br>> an application where data entry is a primary use is not exactly a
<br>> clever thing to do. Following this logic, having backspace shortcut to<br>> do nothing when a text field is out of focus would be better behaviour<br>> than 'page-up'.<br><br>Firefox's primary use is "browsing the web" (which includes going to a
<br>previous page), not "data entry".</blockquote></span><br>And "browsing the web" does not include entering text? I'm sure gmail and hotmail users will disagree with you.<br><br>Arwyn<br>