Talk:Keyboard shortcut registry for extension authors - Firefox
Q: What is this character that's showing up in this table a lot? " "
I see a square box with 4 mini text items in it... 0 0 8 5 is the text... windows maps that to "U"... but I doubt that's what the original author intended to have in there. Thanks
Martimus8
A: 'Ellipses' as in "..." as in the original menu item for instance.
That is what I intended to be in there and that is what I see. Some people (probably without even noticing) do succeed in converting them all to some silly character when editing using an inappropriate character mapping on their machine. I had to correct that at least once after someone apparently inserted one line by extracting the whole table to a file on their own system, adding that line and then replacing the table with the edited version from the file. I think what you see is an artifact of your OS and/or character mapping etc. Windows does not map it to 'U'. In Windows I see it as it is (as I typed it in) - dot dot dot. That it is converted to one character is not my preference.
I have changed the KeyConfig link to the current page on AMI, which is the present incarnation of TEM. It is much more informative and useful than the Mozdev page which is no longer maintained. The AMI page has several versions of the extension, a decent description and links which include the extension's discussion topic 'owned' by Dorando (the extension author) on Mozine, the extension's discussion topic on AMI and also a link to the same homepage as the extension itself links to in the FF Add-ons window.
I expect you are aware that the 'nav bar' (which MKB calls the 'Quickbar') may be moved to the left (or even suppressed) in your MKB profile preferences so, when you are logged in, you can get what you wanted there. I am not convinced that reducing the font size and making those who cannot read such small text use ctrl-'+'. is a proper solution. That discriminates against those many of us (including me) who cannot read text as small as you have chosen. Why not instead make the 'very able sighted' use ctrl-'-' if they need - which they currently will not, because, except for the column headers, which can still be read, the particular cells overlapped (at the top of the table) have no information in them. This is a question of planning for accessibility since very many unsubscribed users will now not be able to read the table without zooming whereas before others were faced with only a minor inconvenience.
I leave it to you to reconsider given that, even if they start with it, few people retain 20-20 eyesight as time goes by and small print therefore causes a lot of stress even if zooming can enlarge it.
Personally, I have no serious problem in this case since the skin (/preferences?) I use (originally?) had some kind of font control, so that when logged in I see the size as I used to. Moreover I keep the sidebar on the left anyway in this context. However, for the many 'read only' visitors those facilities are not available.
