Re:Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment
by chrismorgan on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:55PM
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A closely-related issue: Space has long been partially broken in YouTube: if a button is focused, then Space toggles the play state and lets that button activate (the browser default behaviour). This is probably most frustrating if you clicked on the play/pause button with your mouse, so that it’s focused: now pressing Space will pause and immediately resume (or resume and immediately pause again). So I got used to using k instead of Space. Someone should put an event.preventDefault() somewhere.
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Re:Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment
by mkl on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:03PM
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There's another long-standing YouTube space bug too: space doesn't scroll down when the page itself has the focus, like it does on every other web page. It just plays/pauses the video, even if you're way down in the comments.
Re:Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment
by jml7c5 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:22PM
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I would suspect this is intended behavior. YouTube expects users to rely on page up/page down or mouse/trackpad scroll.
Re:Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment
by brokenmachine on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:11AM
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The thing I don't like is if you click on a timestamp in the comments, it zooms you up to the video, so you lose where you were up to in the comments.
I wonder if there's any way to get it to not do that, even on a one-time basis? If I want to go back to the top, I'll press the Home key, thank you very much.