[Bug 26218] When .getModifierState("OS") should be true?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26218

--- Comment #6 from Karl Tomlinson <bugs+w3@karlt.net> ---
My original concern was as follows:  "Super" is a somewhat archaic name for a
key deriving from lisp keyboards [1].  These days it is most similar in use to
the Windows key, and probably would have been called "WIN" or "OS" or similar,
except that there didn't seem to be any need to add yet another name when
"Super" was already available.  See [2] for a bit of an overview.

[1] http://home.comcast.net/~mmcm/kbd/SpaceCadet.html
[2] http://askubuntu.com/questions/19558/what-are-the-meta-super-and-hyper-keys

Similarly now, my feeling is that there is no need to add "Super" as there is
already "OS" available.  (I don't really care about "Hyper".  It's use would
be obscure.)

This is similar to the issue raised bug 22073 comment 0, only that "Super" is
more similar in functionality to "OS" than "Meta" is to "OS".

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