Odd Safari "Feature"

[pimentoLoaf]

When I'm reading my online NYTimes this morning, lo and behold, pressing the spacebar was causing the page to scoll down.

Is this a feature or a bug? 10.4.8 & iBook g4.

 

[seanf]

It's a feature in pretty much every browser available

Sean

 

[mkrishnan]

Feature. As stated, in almost every browser. Shift-space typically goes up by the same amount. It's very convenient.

EDIT: PS in most mail programs as well.

 

[Max Payne]

I tried it with FireFox 2.0 just now an it also works.

 

[pimentoLoaf]

Neato.

Wonder who dreamt up the need for that? Every keyboard has scroll buttons.

 

[uaaerospace]

Feature. As stated, in almost every browser.

Even IE has this feature

 

[iMeowbot]

Wonder who dreamt up the need for that? Every keyboard has scroll buttons.

It keeps the old farts happy, programs have had that kind of paging since before terminals commonly had arrow keys (or even screens for that matter).

 

[WildCowboy]

I use it routinely when browsing on a laptop without my scroll wheel mouse...it gets me down the page a lot faster than using the arrow key and it's very conveniently located.

 

[mkrishnan]

Even IE has this feature

I think IE may actually have been the first one (web browser) to do it. I remember at that time at least, that this feature showed up in IE and Outlook around 1998, and I remember really liking it, and I don't remember that Moz or Netscape had it at that time. Could be wrong, though.

I don't see why it's a problem that it's there. It's just another way to do things that may be intuitive to users. It's really particularly nice in mail applications, though to be honest. Because in most mail apps, it not only advances to the beginning / end of the message but an additional press of the same key goes to the next / previous message.

So between shift and space you can read through your whole inbox while doing other things... Get used to 65-70 hour work weeks and reading your mail at 6 in the morning while still trying to wake up and waiting for your coffee to be cool enough to not burn you and defrost your fingers from the subzero temperature outside and little things like that make you really happy....

 

[Jaffa Cake]

I use it routinely when browsing on a laptop without my scroll wheel mouse...it gets me down the page a lot faster than using the arrow key and it's very conveniently located.

Same here – if I'm doing a bit of MacRumoring on my iBook it's my preferred way to rattle down to the bottom of the page.

 

[iMeowbot]

Mosaic was missing that feature, but Netscape had it from before 1.0.

 

[yellow]

It keeps the old farts happy, programs have had that kind of paging since before terminals commonly had arrow keys (or even screens for that matter).

Exactly.. that's how I read "more" and man pages in Terminal.