So I’m working on identifying cards in the upload window, and decide to erase the species name in the taxon field, keep the genus, and let the system bring up other species. I put the cursor at the end of the taxon, hold the backspace key, but instead of stopping at the left side of the box, it erases everything in the box and then goes back to the previous page (usual behavior but not in a field box). When I get into the upload page again everything I’ve just worked on is gone.
Somewhat annoying. Is this a setting I need to change in Firefox, or is this a feature of the upload page?
i believe this is a browser issue rather than a website issue. Chrome used to do it and it was awful, i guess firefox still does. There’s some discussion about it here but i don’t understand it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1195262
And if you press delete again, the browser still takes you back to the last page. We’ll look into this, but I’m not sure it’s something we can fix on our end, it might be a browser thing. This doesn’t happen in Safari or Chrome, but FF has some other weird behaviors that we can’t fix (eg try to select text in the Observation card on the uploader).
Thanks. Yes, and unfortunately when the backspace key is pressed down it just flies right by this warning box :-) I’ll look in Settings in FF to see if there is anything that can be changed. Thanks for looking into it.
I was an engineer on Safari for a long time. That shortcut of the Backspace/Delete key being mapped to the browser’s concept of “Back one page” had already been around for a long time when we started Safari in 2001. I hated it as a confusing (but occasionally handy for experts) UI pun and eventually succeeded in getting it removed from Safari. I’m sorry to hear that it still persists in some browsers.
Technically not a bug, but quite an annoying result of the interfaces… Go to upload, drop in a photo or two, start typing the name, make a typo, then use the backspace to remove what you had typed. Accidentally hit it one more time and it triggers the browser’s response of going back a page so you have to start over again from clicking on uploads.
If you drop in a bunch of photos and get most of them named, then make the typo in the last one, this can really suck.
It is extra problematic when the photos I dropped in had some keyword previously added through lightroom - iNat seems to push it into the Name field. My last experience with photos from Nevada got everything named “Nevada”. Trying to delete that out from each observation without over deleting was a surprising challenge.
Maybe iNat could just capture the backspace such that it didn’t trigger the browser to go back a page?
Using Firefox within Windows 10 - if relevent.
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Firefox with Windows 10 here too. Have experienced the same issue. Can be “solved” by uploading everything with “Nevada” as name and adding the proper ID later.
This happens to me in Firefox. I notice that instead of using the backspace you can clear the field using an x that appears inside it on the right, so now I do that instead.
