- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:20:15 +1000
- To: public-webapi@w3.org
What should happen if a key that is not a modifier is given in the
modifiersList argument of the MouseEvent.initMouseEventNS method? There
would be three such "not modifiers":
1. keys that the implementation knows about and knows are not
modifiers, such as "Tab" on a PC keyboard,
2. those that the implementation knows about but also knows that the
device doesn't support, such as "Shift" on a mobile phone, and
3. those that the implementation does not know about, such as a
"Hyper" key on a Sun keyboard, where the implementation has not
been written with such a key in mind.
My initial reaction would be to do either:
A. ignore (1) and store (2) and (3), or
B. store (1), (2) and (3),
leaning towards B just because it's more easily implemented, and I can't
think of a valid reason for caring about whether "Tab" was specified as
a modifier or not, especially if there is no way to get the list of all
modifiers in effect. I could imagine tiny implementations that would
want to avoid storing strings for modifier keys, and would favour just
storing (1) as a bitfield, but DOM 3 keyboard events are already pretty
string heavy.
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