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Safari extension highlight: Safari Access Keys

With the addition of the Safari Extensions Gallery to Apple's website, TUAW will be highlighting extensions that we think are special, useful, or just plain fun.

Fellow keyboard jockeys will appreciate this one. Safari Access Keys displays a site's keyboard shortcuts in the browser's toolbar. Many sites like Wikipedia employ keyboard shortcuts, which make navigation faster and easier. However, they aren't always readily apparent or even consistent. Safari Access Keys solves the problem by displaying each key combo clearly.

As a bonus, the extension's author explains how to enable the HTML accesskey attribute on your own site. Well done, Dale!

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Jeff

What in the world is going on with the controls in that screenshot? tiny stoplight buttons, tiny back and forward arrows....?

Access Keys are killer, though. This extension is a nice way to put that functionality somewhere visible. (seems like the designers ought to have figured out something for their own sites, though.)

August 16 2010 at 4:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Dale Price

Those UI controls are part of the Vitae theme: http://bl4ck-17.deviantart.com/art/Vitae-SL-1-3-1-unofficial-141346519

August 16 2010 at 5:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen

Is there an extension that let's you run firefox extensions? Zotero ( http://zotero.org/ ) is the only thing stopping me switching to safari.

August 16 2010 at 3:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Chris G.

Won't happen. Firefox extensions are written in XUL, which Safari doesn't even know how to read, nevermind support.

August 16 2010 at 4:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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