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Archive: November 2010

Don't forget your passport

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Recently in Kiev I was at a community meetup. I had been tired when I arrived, but when we left I was actually wide awake, buzzing with energy and thinking about questions. Since I had interviews the next morning, I decided a quick walk would let me see some of the sights of Kiev (even in the dark there are things to see) and relax. And near the main square, a policeman stopped me and asked for my documents. Which for the first time in a year or so I was not carrying - I had left them in the hotel.

And so began the only really negative experience I had in the Ukraine (I thoroughly enjoyed the week as a whole)...

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Image description for Excesskey

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This is long descriptions of images in my excesskey documentation page. (Right now there is only one image). If you don't know what the description is for, you'll probably find that page more interesting (and it has pictures). In any case the most important information is there, not here

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Excesskey - my first Opera extension!

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Update 2011-01-26: Source code published: https://bitbucket.org/chaals/excesskey, this page updated.

Update 2010-12-01: version 1.21 now available. As is a change log

I have been messing around with the extension stuff for a while. The project is to improve the usability of accesskeys, and version 1.1 actually works (although there are a lot of improvements I want to make).

This page will serve as the user documentation for the foreseeable future (which means I will add 'update this' to the list of things I need to do as I make changes).

(I realise this isn't actual magic yet - people like Gez Lemon have made extensions to improve accesskey behaviour in browsers before. Opera has the best accesskey implementation today but we can improve. This is an attempt to prototype what I think a good accesskey implementation would do).

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