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- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:20:03 +0000
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ISSUE-139 (clarify key repeat): Define which events repeat when a key is held down [DOM3 Events]
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/139
Raised by: Doug Schepers
On product: DOM3 Events
Hallvord R. M. Steen <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010JulSep/0178.html>:
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spec currently says:
> Depending on the system configuration, holding down a key
> results may result in multiple consecutive keydown events,
> keypress events, and textInput events, for appropriate keys
Leaving aside the grammatical mistake ('results may result'), the spec is
too vague here. Web content requires that we repeatedly send
keydown+keypress [1]. Implementations that support this should also repeat
textInput and input events after keypress.
Suggested replacement text:
"Holding down a key must result in repeating the events keydown, keypress
and textInput in this order, at a rate determined by the system
configuration."
(And I'm absolutely sure this is an issue and must be fixed, because Opera
currently breaks docs.google.com by not repeating correctly :-p)
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