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On Mac browsers, Command-L should select the address bar
I often use CMD + H for hiding Safari (or any other application on the Mac). However, while I am editing a post in Stack Overflow I can't use this shortcut because CMD + H adds a new markdown-header within the editor window. So instead of hiding, it inserts the following
## Heading ##
I personally don't think that a website should cancel out a browser's or the operating system's shortcuts in any case.
The website is given the power by the browser which is given the power by the OS. The website is not cancelling out or overriding the shortcut, it's simply providing a feature.
Shortcuts are more or less arbitrary, and limited to common things (like CMD+H) if they want to be memorable and easy to use. There's no way to avoid collision, especially with all the browser/OS/other combinations out there. (I use CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+C for the calculator in Windows ... guess what that does in Chrome?)
The habit of clicking or tabbing out of the box before minimizing shouldn't be hard to pick up.
^Ifeature. That's how I ask my browser to spawn an external editor on the text area; Matthew's suggestion of defocussing the text area first can't work for that. :(