Other than the obvious — keyboard shortcuts — this also heavily relies on being able to input ahead of time, before the next screen is even drawn. Older systems buffer inputs and apply them correctly to the interface elements as they become visible.
The modern web does none of this, which is why users have to wait for each screen before inputting the next command… if it has a keyboard shortcut. It probably doesn’t.
Not quite true. Worked at epic previously. Due to the culmination of a 10 year migration from VB to electron, the os level input buffer was discarded mid 2023 since electron doesn’t handle those the same way. The primary reason for this is that VB was pretty much synchronous. However, web technologies don’t act the same way because keeping your keyboard inout while navigating to a different site would be weird.
We added an input handler to queue inputs so that sequences of shortcuts and keypresses could be used.
Additionally, the internal framework we had allowed for shortcuts and we tried to replicate as much as could shortcut wise (as well as functionality wise). Almost everything should have a shortcut or a way to navigate to it via just keyboard — they had put in a lot of effort to ensure accessibility so that they could get the va contract that went to cerner(pre-oracle acquisition)
> The modern web does none of this, which is why users have to wait for each screen before inputting the next command…
Or wait further. Many web screens appear in a state that is initially nonresponsive, becoming responsive invisibly after an unknown and variable period of time taken for code to load.
Yeah and the worst part is, nobody, not even quite serious vendors selling stuff with all sorts of bells and whistles, do any sort of benchmarking on all these various paramters. (That I’ve seen)
So even if people wanted to believe and buy so and so product, they have no way to substantively compare who is more honest.
The modern web does none of this, which is why users have to wait for each screen before inputting the next command… if it has a keyboard shortcut. It probably doesn’t.