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Oh, nice! Too bad it's not in the regular search page yet, I'll never remember to use this.

The string extension can be added in Preferencs > Search.

No suprise for readers of this blog hopefully, but this is not really hopeful... Easy keyboard access should not be dependent on site designers adding complex scripts. With Opera, it is easy to get the same keyboard usability:

Key           Action
Shift+Down    Selects the next result.
Shift+Up      Selects the previous result.
<Enter>       Opens the selected result.
Tab           Puts the cursor in the search box.
<Esc>         Removes the cursor from the search box.

I just wanted to say pretty the same as Rijk said.
Just use Opera's spatial navigation. I use.
BTW, too bad that spatial navigation leaved broken in Opera 9.0 - 9.24

csant, the point is that I will not (and nobody will) remember different shortcuts for different sites.
Most likely I will just use that works at any site, because my fingers already in position -- I use spatial navigation unknowingly.

BTW, I found Google shortcuts not comfortable. Seems for me (as gamer and Opera user) that "W" (up, previous) and "S" (down, next) would be much better for most users.

/       Puts the cursor in the search box.

And this shortcut will interfere with Opera's in-page search, that I use sometimes on search results pages.

However, I am missing a usable structural navigation in Opera: W and S somehow accomplish exactly the navigation Google's bindings provide - but the link is not activated...

All in your hands...

Strange to see an Opera dev praising the bullshit Google makes just because "standard" browsers *don't have* spatial navigation. Lame.

I find it interesting that Google uses vi-style shortcuts and other sites like slashdot use the gamer cursors W,S,A,D. I definitely feel comfoable with vi-style J,K.

On another note, could it be that spatial nav used to be more robust in earlier Opera versions? I use it very often, but lately I often find the rectangle trapped in some layout, i.e., I cannot move to an expected link even though the euclidian distance and angle would make it the most likely target. Sometimes the rectangle cylcles through some links even though I only press e.g. Shift+down.

On another note, could it be that spatial nav used to be more robust in earlier Opera versions?

Actually Opera 9.5 has improved algorithm of spatial navigation (I noted couple sites where it started working as expected).

IMO, opera's spatial navigation is great, but some times i can't reach the desired link so i have to combine it with tabbing navigation (by ctrl + up/down, spatial by arrangement instead location, but for links only)
but i think it would be great if opera have caret navigation ability, other than accurately selecting links and other elements it can be used to select any text (for copying or whatever) just as a pointing device's cursor. (before 9.5 opera's spatial navigation was able to select link's text, now no more, and the selected link is viewed by a rectangle like it was (and still is) for tabbing navigation)
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