Jelle Druyts

Pop quiz: do you know what CTRL-W means in Internet Explorer? If you don't, go ahead and try it out now. Or no, wait: first go to some webpage where you can fill in a lot of information (like, totally out of the blue: a blog entry page), type away for half an hour, and now press CTRL-W.

Feels good doesn't it...

Normally, I wouldn't even try typing CTRL-W; not because I think it's useless (it is though, simply because of ALT-F4), but because I just didn't know it existed. And I particularly didn't like the way I found out. (It actually just happened because I wanted to press CTRL-Z to undo something but I'm stuck with a QWERTY keyboard layout this week so I hit it too fast. Power of habit.)

So I look up the shortcuts in IE and it's listed allright, but there's no way you can customize these shortcuts. And with customize - in this case - of course, I mean: radically delete the tricky bastard. I don't use it, I don't want it in my system.

So IE guys, listen up, if you're going to include non-standard redundant shortcuts, please give me a way to override or delete them.

Thanks. Now on to retype (a shortened version of) my intended blog post...