{"id":1748,"date":"2007-07-05T18:39:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T16:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/keyboard-shortcuts-for-web-applications\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:52:00","slug":"keyboard-shortcuts-for-web-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/keyboard-shortcuts-for-web-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard shortcuts for web applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KeyboardKeyboard shortcuts are the kind of thing that you either love or hate. Some people simply cannot get used to them, but I sincerely recommend you to give them a chance: you’ll move faster inside applications, perform tasks more easily and notice a remarkable improvement in your productivity.<\/p>\n

This optimization can be applied not only to desktop applications but also to web services, which are so popular nowadays. In fact, the people at Mashable have managed to gather a collection of more than 200 keyboard shortcuts<\/a> that you can use in many different web services such as Netvibes, Wikipedia, Blogger and most of Google apps.<\/p>\n

I consider myself a heavy keyboard shortcut user but still, I have something to complain about: why do shortcuts change from one application to another? Why don’t they create a standard? Opening a new file can be Ctrl+U or Ctrl+N, but the latter can also mean “bold text” in other applications… or wasn’t that Crtl+B?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keyboard shortcuts are the kind of thing that you either love or hate. Some people simply cannot get used to them, but I sincerely recommend you to give them a chance: you’ll move faster inside applications, perform tasks more easily and notice a remarkable improvement in your productivity. This optimization can be applied not only … Continue reading “Keyboard shortcuts for web applications”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337462,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/337462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}