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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by omaranto on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @08:20AM (#8990127)
If you ask me web browser's stole CTRL+S! It used to mean "save my work", but in a browser it means "download a copy of the website I am viewing", which seems totally different to me. I can't remember ever wanting that behavior.

I agree with you that websites shouldn't override useful browser behavior, but I'm OK with websites restoring CTRL+S to it's rightful meaning of saving my work.

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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by cwyers on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:10AM (#8990717)
It's a holdover from when people who made web browsers imagined them being used for browsing web pages, not as an application run time.
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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by neohaven on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @09:21AM (#8990405)
It means "Save the thing I'm looking at".

Ctrl-S says to your browser "I want to save this".

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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by Shog9 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:08AM (#8991091)
Except, it generally doesn't mean that either. It means "download the page again and save that - nevermind if what I'm looking at has changed since it was retrieved". Which also breaks the mental model of "save my work", even if you're just typing text into a form.
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