JRS: In article <BD**************************@virgin.net>, dated Wed, 3
Nov 2004 16:34:39, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Philip Ronan
<ph***********@virgin.net> posted :
Robert Nurse wrote:
Is it at all possible to capture and suppress the backspace key when
focus is not on a form edit control? Basically, while the page is
loading I don't want the user pressing the backspace key which IE
interprets as a desire to return to the previous page.
Perhaps, but why do you want to do this? If you find IE annoying then use a
different browser. Disabling navigation features like this is not going to
improve the accessibility of your website.
On the Internet, an author does not get to choose the user's browser -
unless he is prepared to write pages of restricted compatibility. An
author should want, as far is possible, to prevent unfortunate effects
from user actions. The real question is whether the gains from making
such a change to the user interface would outweigh the losses.
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