Re: specification of "legacy" key events

Hallvord R. M. Steen wrote:
>> Why not? IME could emulate normal keydown/keypress/keyup.
>
> For legacy content compatibility. IMEs that process key input do not
> currently cause keypress events to fire, and I believe changing this
> would break legacy content for IME users. (I'm fairly sure this point
> has been raised by implementors and I could try to find the relevant
> E-mails if you need them.)
>

Mozilla does dispatch a keypress with IME (at least when testing MS IME
Standard 2002 ver 8.1 / Hiragana) . So if you know some relevant
emails, would be great have the links.