Web apps hot keys jQuery plugin
This project manages my jQuery HotKeys for web apps plugin which is described in these blog posts:
- http://blog.michaelckennedy.net/2012/03/15/add-hot-keys-to-web-apps-with-this-jquery-plugin/
- http://blog.michaelckennedy.net/2012/04/04/no-you-dont-need-a-windows-app/
See it live here:
http://web-apps-hotkeys.azurewebsites.net/
Get the plugin here:
https://github.com/mikeckennedy/web-apps-hotkeys/tree/master/src/jslib
jQuery.hotKeyMap.js is jQuery plugin that allows you to add complex hot-key functionality and navigation to your web apps with very little effort.
It's built on top of John Resig's jQuery.hotKeys. His plugin is great (as you'd expect), but as far as I know doesn't support complex series of keys. For example, if you want to GMail style navigation (press 'g' then press 't' to go to sent mail), that's fairly difficult using his plugin. Here's how you accomplish this with my plugin: