[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 39158] Web Inspector: use platform-specific key designations in shortcuts help for mac

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39158





--- Comment #7 from Pavel Feldman <pfeldman at chromium.org>  2010-05-15 13:23:08 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Yes, mac users should be familiar with these shortcut
> key symbols. Further, these tools are for developers
> who are even more likely to understand these symbols.

Please forgive my sarcastic tone below.

So what is wrong with these?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343
http://www.apple.com/itunes/how-to/shortcuts.html
http://eg-www.apple.com/support/iphoto/shortcuts/
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/secretcapture.html
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebInspector#ShortcutKeys

Oh no, in the last one, someone is using "Esc", "Tab" and "Page Up"! Doesn't he know there are images for those?!?

Seriously, I think the purpose of this help screen is to make shortcuts more accessible. Parsing 'Esc' is easier and more accessible than parsing ⎋. That is why all the docs use 'Esc'. We are not a part of a Mac menu, we don't have constraints such as 'fewer symbols, align to the right'. We are a documentation page within the app. I am a happy Mac user for years, a developer. But I had to think a bit in order to parse images for esc and page up.

Sarcasm desert: I might consider agreeing with you in case you point me to a help topic / menu item in the (Snow?) Leopard standard distribution referring to a PageUp using the image you are suggesting :) (And yes, my keyboard does not have it as it has 'esc' for escape).

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