Keyboard control

[andrewducker]

Title
Keyboard control

Short, concise description of the idea
I should be able to use j and k to scroll up and down my friends list.

Full description of the idea
I can use j/k to scroll in Google Plus, Google Reader, and the odd other web page. Being able to press "J" to go to the next post would be awesome.
An ordered list of benefits

• Keyboard access

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I like it.

I'm guessing that if implemented, it would be available in officially updated themes, but people's custom themes and custom overrides might have problems.

[mmaster]

I use a Greasemonkey script to do this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4886

Of course, having it baked in would probably work better...

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[pauamma]

Baking it in would probably involve some adding some Javascript to all pages concerned, which might be harder than a userscript for people who need or want that feature. In addition, a userscript would be easier to adapt to per-user constraints like accessibility software, keyboard or mouse emulation, etc.

[scien]

Just out of curiosity, how is this any different to the page up/down keys, or the space bar? I press space allll the time.

Oh I see, it takes you to the top of the next post. Neat.

[dcseain]

No different from arrow keys far as i can tell.

[andrewducker]

It's next entry/previous entry, rather than a line at a time.

[ursamajor]

To be honest, I hate that Google key implementation like burning, so I would strongly, strongly request that if something like this gets implemented, that it be absolutely, positively opt-in only. I cannot tell you the number of times I have told Google to make that keyboard "functionality" go away, only for them to randomly forget it weeks later, so when I hit a key included in their "functionality" set while doing something else, I get jumped around the page or moved elsewhere and lose whatever I was doing.

(The perpetual accessibility problem: one person's accessibility solution is another person's accessibility nightmare.)