...good point, the point I was trying to make was not so much the discoverability of the FEATURE (I do agree with your points there)...but of discoverability of the SHORTCUT to the feature, which is what you referred to as efficiency.
the fact that I (and apparently many others) learned about some OS X keyboard shortcuts through reading this thread indicates that there is still a problem with "discoverability"
...that's pretty slick but the discoverability on Windows is still better
first..you'd have to know to think about what the feature is named...
...on Windows...you can invoke any menu by pressing ALT and then the first letter of the menu or a designated letter on a menu option (or you can use the arrows)...all windows menus get this behavior by default, in addition to separate keyboard shortcuts that can also be defined in the application
...you can get to the menus on Macs through a rather inconvenient combo CTRL-F2 (CTRL-FN-F2 on Macbooks)...but you can only arrow through commands, there are no letter shortcuts in that case.
...I like OS X, but this is one area that Windows does much better (that and multiple monitors)...
...those home and end keys unfortunately don't take you to the beginning or end of a line like on Windows or Linux...they take you to the top/bottom of the document! one of the more painful parts of my switching process was un-training myself to hit home to get to the beginning of a line (these is no way to remap system wide either, you need to do it on a per app basis)...you're almost better off without having those keys.
agree with the above...went through some eval on SC a few months back. We didn't go with SC, not for the lack of the demo link (swear the demo link wasn't there then :)), but I recall being a bit off put about it as well
...seems there has been a lot of development since though, some updated demos would really be nice.
...the problem is that there is no reason that a demo for a web framework should require an install in the first place--I mean you're already on a web page to look at it aren't you?...sure it's easy enough to install (i did it)...but it seems lazy especially if the intent is to promote usage of the framework.
the fact that I (and apparently many others) learned about some OS X keyboard shortcuts through reading this thread indicates that there is still a problem with "discoverability"