Re: A proposal for changing the guidelines

Hi, Rob

Actually, this isn't that bad.  The name of the key being used is
listed at the very beginning of the page so that it need not
be a standard key.

However, a standard key would be desirable if possible.  There are only
two browsers which support Javascript.  I've found that the ctrl-z key
works on both for this purpose.  It might mean doing some outreach
to the browser developers to ask that the ctrl-z key be kept free.

If this isn't possible, the second approach, though less desirable would be
to identify a particular key per browser.

Scott

PS  A trick I've used when coding keyboard events in Javascript is to use a
look-up table to convert keys into functions.  It makes the code much simpler to
change.  It also supports multiple versions of keyboard events.


>  is there a standard keyboard access list?  but i think the answer is no.  if
>  not then whose responsibility is this?  we cannot have different access
>  lists - this is a nightmare for implementation and developers!