New Gestures and Category Creation

Submitted by chadm on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 20:32

I added a few new touch gestures today. Each of works on the entire page rather than an individual item like swiping left and right. The goal with these changes is to allow users to take the actions at any point on the page instead of having to scroll to the bottom first.

- swipe diagonally from top left to bottom right: Mark Page Unread
- swipe diagonally from top right to bottom left: Mark Page Read
- swipe diagonally from bottom left to top right: Go to Previous Page
- swipe diagonally from bottom right to top left: Go to Next Page

In addition to those adds a bug that prevented creating new categories has been fixed.

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Navigation

j/k selects the next/previous item in the list
n/p in title view, selects the next item without opening it
space/shift+space moves to the next/previous page
shift+m open/close the main menu
shift+o open/close the options menu
enter select the highlight entry from a menu

Actions

enter,o in title view, expands or collapses the selected item
shift+a marks all items in the current page as read
d go to the item's list of similar stories
i/u designate the item as interesting/not interesting
m marks the item as read or unread
s adds or removes a star from the selected item
shift+s open/close the item's share menu
shift+u marks all items in the current page as unread
v opens the original source for the item in a new tab

Go To a New Page

g then h go to the homepage
g then i go to the Interesting items view
g then a go to the All items view
g then s go to the Saved items view
g then p go to the Popular items view
g then f go to the Select a Feed page

Application

- decrease the font size
= increase the font size
esc close any menu if open, otherwise deselect all items
? open/close a decription of keyboard shortcuts
- Show Popular
- Find a Feed