cotonti.com : Enter to Publish or Save As Draft? https://www.cotonti.com Laatste forum onderwerpen Cotonti en Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:03:40 -0000 schulle4u 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

]]> Wo, 28 Dec 2011 09:05:36 -0000 Kort 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.

]]> Di, 27 Dec 2011 17:31:30 -0000