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Kort
#1 2011-12-27 17:31

Right now the order of buttons in the page.add and page.edit template forces pages to be saved as drafts when user hits enter. I find it pretty strange for several reasons.

First, drafts are not commonly used.

Second, typically you'd expect normal action to be executed on enter.

Third, in some cases (laptops & netbooks, "long" page edit templates) this forces user to use scroll & target the "publish" button with touchpad, which is just... very complicated (as compared to a single keyboard hit).

Question is: should the order of the buttons be changed so that enter is publish. Also provisions for other hotkeys should be introduced (i.e. Ctrl-S to save as draft). I would personally suggest to comment out the draft button for in the majority of cases it only confuses the user.

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schulle4u
#2 2011-12-28 09:05

I vote for enter = publish, not only because I'm a screen-reader user and keyboard input is the only access I have to web applications. Hitting enter instead of searching for a publish button is much more comfortable.
Another suggestion is to make a selectbox somewhere above the page text field whether to save as draft or publish the article immediately. The publish button then should be labeled as save to avoid confusion.

Steffen

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