Re: Re: Keyboard events for accessible RIAs and Games

The information this let's the application access is the keyboard layout
the user has in effect, which is information already accessible via the
Level 3 locale member of KeyboardEvent.
On 31 Jan 2013 03:56, "Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen" <hallvord@opera.com>
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> > I don't think figuring out how close X is to Y is relevant, at all. And
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> Well yes, implicitly you did. If a random website can figure out where
> keys are on your keyboard (i.e. what layout you are using) it is an extra
> data point for fingerprinting / tracking users. So Björn has a good point:
> for privacy reasons, access to this API should probably be limited to
> sites/apps that are trusted or privileged in some way.
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> Hallvord R. M. Steen
> Core tester, Opera Software
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