Why do you insist on making the ‘backspace’ navigate my browser back in history. Why in the world would someone think “Hey, I’m going to navigate to the previous page in my browser’s history. Time to press ‘backspace’!”?
I’m guessing long ago, someone did, and added that behavior to Mosaic, or Netscape 1.0, or whatever, and since then it’s been a feature of every single browser ever, because hey, everyone else did it, so therefore it must mean people want it, right?
No. No they don’t. Backspace means “erase the character to the left of my cursor”. (Don’t tell me that it’s supposed to be a forward delete, btw.) If I think I’ve focused a text field, and hit backspace, but in reality I have lost focus on that text field, I don’t want the whole freaking page I’m browsing to change to whatever it was before. I want the system to beep, to alert me that I can’t remove a character to the left of my cursor, because my cursor is nowhere near a character.
Make this happen please. Thanks.
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