Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
> In article <tFtNj.327194$bc6.139693@reader1.news.saunalahti.f i>,
> "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> The HTML side of the matter is that accesskeys, as defined in HTML,
>> are mostly useless or worse than useless, partly because they may
>> interfere with browser or system accesskey assignments that users
>> are familiar with and may really need.
>
> In my book letting a site hi-jack browser functionality would count
> as a browser bug.

It's a feature provided by the HTML standard, so whatever you may think
of it, it isn't a bug for a browser to implement it.

> IMO a more valid argument against acceskey is that it's a per site
> solution for something that ought to have a cross site solution.
> (Yep, browser vendors again )

How can you have a cross-site solution for something that is inherently
site-specific? That isn't the problem with access keys, any more than
it's a problem that the same Ctrl key combination will serve different
purposes in different OS windows.