I’m waiting for the inevitable .1 release before upgrading, but I’ve started testing WordPress 2.0. One of the first things I noticed was that the tooltips on the new rich text editor are just plain wrong for Mac users – we gots no “Alt” key, yo!
Mentally replace “Alt” with “Ctrl” and you’ll be fine. I guess we know what platform Matt and company develop on. 🙂
I created a bug in Trac and I added a task for myself to create a patch for this (if no one else has), but probably won’t get to it until after January 16th at the earliest.
I might be able to get to this if you don’t have the time, but what would you use to sense the OS? JavaScript would be kinda messy, and PHP is probably the better answer, to parse HTTP_USER_AGENT.
Actually alt is the option key for me – or so it says on my Apple branded keyboard. 🙂
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/416.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.13Seems to me searching for Mac / Macintosh in $_SERVER[“HTTP_USER_AGENT”] would do it.
Isn’t there already some kind of OS / Browser detection going on? In Safari you don’t get the old-style quicktag (or whatever you guys called them) buttons above the text area. There’s no error, so I’m assuming something intelligent is going on to eliminate them.
I use the mac and I have a “kölsch”-key 🙂
a happy new year all!
would it not be better to simply use a term such as “Access Key + {}” or similar vernacular?
robert.
The great thing about WordPress is that it’s easy for someone without computer knowledge to use. If you told someone to press the “Access” key, they’d get frustrated because they couldn’t find it on their keyboard. Kind of like pressing the “any” key to continue. 😉
If you don’t want to use the detection route, you could use the convention used in cross-platform instruction books.
Ctrl+B (Command+B)
From a usability standpoint, showing the user the appropriate shortcut based on a detected platform is the right thing to do.
True dat!
I think the best thing to do would be to put some conditional calculation which tells Mac users, hit the option key and Windows users to hit alt. As it is, using said keys is not intuitive for newbie users, a phrase like “access key” prompts the Homer Simpson question:
“where’s the Access key?”
Happy new year!
I’m sorry if I get something wrong, but what do You mean with “Mac users – we gots no “Altâ€? key”? On my Power Book 17″ 1 GHz I do of course have an Alt-Key, and also the different machines at work (from veeeery old Power Macs up to iBook, iMacs and Quicksilver) there are Alt-Keys. Option-Key is an alternative name for the Alt-Key.
The Ctrl-Key is adequate to PCs Ctrl- or Strg-Key and not the same as the Alt-Key… I don’t see the difference.
The “option” key is not the same as the “alt” key, and for Mac users, the proper key for these keyboard shortcuts is “ctrl”, not “alt” (which isn’t on the keyboard) and not or “option” which isn’t even in the conversation.
“Proper Mac OS Key Shortcuts” Patch for the WP 2.x Rich Text Editor
As planned, I submitted a patch to fix the keyboard shortcut labels in Mac OS X for the buttons in the rich text editor control (TinyMCE) used in WP 2.x. Hopefully this or a similar solution will get landed in the core soon. The proper fix may be to i…