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		mgkimsal on Jan 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the Usability of Codecademy Left/right - yeah, I see your point. I was testing it on a page that didn't need to scroll left/right when I tried it, so that didn't occur to me. I probably always mouse or trackpad for scrolling anyway, so my key-fu is a bit rusty. Still... 'delete/backspace' going back in a browser never made sense to me.

haldean on Jan 16, 2012 [–]

On many keyboards, there's an arrow pointing to the left on the backspace key, which may be where the convention comes from.

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