QG Software & 5pm Blog

Today I was just drafting a post in my Blogger. I decided to print it out and go over it later before publishing it. I pressed Ctrl+P and… Instead of sending it to the printer, it sent it to the Whole Wide Web?

Apparently, Google decided to make the shortcuts “more sane”. What used to be “Print” in desktop world (for Windows), became “Publish” in, no not the web, just this particular web application.

I guess, Google is big and they know what they are doing - “pushing envelopes”, “reinventing” and so on. “Publish” is a function that is used much more often than “Print” when it comes to blog posts, so I see where they are coming from. But that’s not the point.

Web and desktop applications are getting mixed up on our computers. We can use Gmail and Word, or Outlook and Google Docs at the same time. And, while the desktop world is pretty standardized, web is still a Wild West. Sometimes those two worlds clash, like they did for me today, when I pressed Ctrl+P.

Why is this happening? I think, all those “web2.0″ applications are written, for the most part, by a younger crowd. They don’t have strong ties to desktop “legacy” standards and don’t hesitate to replace them. At the same time casual users still double click now and again on web links. So, next time, when you hit a key combination that did the same thing for past decades in most of your applications, and instead of that it submits your taxes to IRS, don’t be surprised. The Wild Web is still being settled.

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