Re: Re: Keyboard events for accessible RIAs and Games

Any progress on the speccing of queryKeyCap?


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Gary Kacmarcik (Кошмарчик) <
garykac@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Travis Leithead <
> travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>  I think we should give it another try by including it in our UI Events
>> spec. I like the idea of adding the static queryKeyCap(code) API to
>> Keyboard events. I wonder about the name though. A "key capability" doesn't
>> sound right. Are we querying for a key's locale name? e.g.,
>> queryKeyLocaleName(code)?
>>
>
> SGTM. I'll add a section to the spec for this.
>
> The KeyCap name refers to the "cap" placed over the keyswitch of the
> physical keyboard.  It's not a great name since there's no guarantee that
> the physical keyboard matches the current locale (although they usually
> do). However, the other (more accurate) names that I was able to come up
> with at the time were all rather unwieldy.
>
> Taking your name as a base, I think we'd need something like
> queryLocaleChar(locale, code) or queryLocaleKey since we'd be returning the
> equivalent of the 'char' (or 'key') attribute.
>
> Thinking briefly about this now:
> * If we return 'char' equivalents, we won't return dead keys or other
> virtual keys.
> * If we return 'key' values, then we need to address how to handle
> non-printable keys like "Shift" and "Home" that people might expect to be
> translated.
> * I think we'll also want the ability to specify modifier keys to apply to
> the 'code' (to generate shifted or AltGr'ed versions).
>
> I'll formalize this a bit more and send something out for comments.
>
> -Gary
>
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