Has anyone worked with/built a web app that let's users set let their hot keys? Seems like it should be possible? That way users who like hot keys can just pick the ones they want...
I honestly think it's just lack of awareness. I know it's partly because we warned against jacking native behavior, I think that probably scared people off shortcuts on the web early on. Now we have really complex web apps, but shortcuts are still not being thought about.
Website authors could specify a list of [name, callback, defaultKey] and each browser could implement an interface to change the binding locally.
There could be a button right in the address bar for both discovering them and changing them.