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Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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1345 points philosopher1234 | 1 comments | 02 Feb 23 16:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bogwog ◴[02 Feb 23 17:15 UTC] No.34629739[source]▶
Played this for a bit but ran into some trouble with the key mappings. CTRL to crouch means that I can't really press anything else without causing firefox to ruin the game.

* CTRL+R (reload) causes the page to refresh

* CTRL+W (walk forward) attempts to close the current tab

* CTRL+S (walk backward) opens a dialog to save the current page

* CTRL+D (walk right) bookmarks the current page

Luckily firefox shows a confirmation dialog before refresh or closing the tab, but that causes the game to freeze until you dismiss it.

Also sound didn't work at all

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rollcat ◴[02 Feb 23 19:14 UTC] No.34631651[source]▶
Say what you like about Apple, but having all these functions on the Cmd key instead is not just more logical, it's actually sane (doubly so for the terminal). I think MS has missed an enormous opportunity when they introduced the Win key; and X11 desktops, toolkits, and apps imitated the more familiar (rather than the better) solutions.
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arcanemachiner ◴[02 Feb 23 19:27 UTC] No.34631818[source]▶
I will concede that for once, Apple's insane keyboard mappings actually work in their favor.

But I still won't get them any credit, since it is purely a coincidence that their mappings happened not to mess with this one browser game.

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outworlder ◴[02 Feb 23 19:32 UTC] No.34631874[source]▶
> it is purely a coincidence that their mappings happened not to mess with this one browser game.

Not really a coincidence and that's not the only scenario where it's preferable to have a dedicated command key

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1. jml7c5 ◴[02 Feb 23 21:32 UTC] No.34633404[source]▶
It is a sort of coincidence that Apple decided the pinky finger button should be control rather than command. The other way around and crouch-jumping would be more difficult and you'd want to rebind it... but you would then run into the same keybind overlap issue as experienced on Windows/Linux.