- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:59:37 -0400
- To: public-web-and-tv@w3.org
Hi, Folks- I'm the editor of DOM3 Events, which (among other things) is finally standardizing keyboard events. The spec contains a list of common keys [2], but focuses mainly on traditional desktop keyboards, and to a lesser extent, on mobiles. There are a few keys for media controls, but mainly in the context of "fancy" computer keyboards. It occurred to me that a more forward-looking spec would also include common buttons from media remote controls, such as would be useful for browser-TV-remote hybrid keyboards, like the ones from Logitech, Sony, etc., for GoogleTV, AppleTV, and other systems (I know there are many other projects, these are just the ones that popped into my head from reading tech blogs; no disrespect intended to other vendors). Including remote-control-type buttons would be good for content authors who want to program Web content inclusive of those devices. I've got a few keys/buttons in mind (ChannelUp, ChannelDown, FastForward, Reverse, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, and so forth), but it would be good to have a more comprehensive list of possibilities, along with their relative importance and commonness. If anyone has any concrete suggestions about this, or could you put me in touch with people or companies who do, I would greatly appreciate any help. (To put DOM3 Events in context for those who don't know the technical background, the DOM is the primary way that script interacts with Web documents, by reading, writing, and changing elements, attributes, and text through the in-memory model of the document structure and the associated APIs; DOM events are the way that user interaction is managed within that, e.g. 'click' events, 'keydown' events, etc.) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#key-values Thanks- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
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