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- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:24:24 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11140 Summary: Subject: Physical Keys and Gestures for "accesskey" attribute The use of ASCII/Unicode code points for key binding has numerous well-known drawbacks. There are vital physical keyboard keys with no Unicode representation. Even for the main alphabet keys sp Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top Comment: Subject: Physical Keys and Gestures for "accesskey" attribute The use of ASCII/Unicode code points for key binding has numerous well-known drawbacks. There are vital physical keyboard keys with no Unicode representation. Even for the main alphabet keys specifying a stabile physical location based on ergonomic considerations, regardless of keyboard mapping, may be desirable. Unicode keybinding is useful for mnemonic keys however. So for "accesskey" there should be a complete set of keywords representing the physical keyboard keys -- referenced based on the locations on U.S. standard keyboards, with names like "jKey", "slashKey", "leftArrow", "capsLock". All keys should be represented including alphabet keys, F-keys, modifier keys, cap lock, etc., and there should be syntax for indicating simultaneous key presses (e.g. Control + uparrow). A set of "media" keys would also be highly desirable (e.g. keyboard volume/mute keys bindable to controls of an HTML5 video interface) although this may not be standardizable. But keys are so 2009. We of course also now need keywords for swipe gestures, e.g: [a href="page_2.html" accesskey="rightArrow horizLeftwardSwipe"]Turn Page[/a]. Posted from: 75.36.155.97 -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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