Jon Atkinson wrote:
>>>> - Data entry people use lots of F-keys, Ctrl-keys and Alt-keys to make
>>>> things happen on the screen.
>>> Not quite as much flexibility here.  HTML defines accelerator
>>> keys which are browser-specific (sometimes Alt+letter, sometimes
>>> control+letter, or other combos).
>> This is perhaps the only disappointing news from your experiences.
>>
>>> As a vi/vim user, my fingers occasionally
>>> try to use control+W to delete the previous word while I'm typing
>>> in IE, only to have it close my whole window.  Minutes of sotto
>>> voce oaths usually follow.
>> Ug. This would be disastrous to a clerk on a tight queue. In the very
>> least it looks like I may have to make Firefox a requirement as there
>> appear to be fewer push-here-to-explode opportunities.
> 
> Depending on how much control you have over your deployment, remember
> that is it pretty much trivial to modify the Firefox XUL files which
> define the keyboard shortcuts browser-wide. Turning off certain
> shortcut combinations would take a few minutes at the most, once ou
> knew where to look. Then just distribute the XUL files to the clients
> (I think you do it via Firefox profiles, so you would have a profile
> on each client called 'Data Entry' or similar).

Thanks, that's an excellent idea. And could be readily implemented only 
for the stations that really need it.

Michael

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