[uievents] How do web apps distinguish if a keydown event causes text input? (#18)

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##### Masayuki Nakano 2013-11-25 08:45:34 UTC
Even there is beforeinput event, web applications may want to distinguish whether a keydown event causes text input or not at keydown event handler.

For example, if web apps wants to implement text editor and their own shortcut keys, if a key event will cause text input, it shouldn't be handled as shortcut key at keydown event.

E.g., Ctrl+Shift+2 of Persian keyboard layout causes inputting ZWNJ.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414130

So, in such case, text input may be preferred rather than kicking shortcut.

I'd like to suggest a new attribute KeyboardEvent.inputText as bool.

##### Comment 1 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2013-12-04 01:49:09 UTC
Moving to UIEvents component with permission from opener. We will not address this as part of finishing DOM3 Events.

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