Re: [UIEvents] Keydown/keyup events during composition

On 01/10/2016 01:16 AM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> Hi all,
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> This is another feedback from multiple browser vendors (Apple, Google, Microsoft) that got together in Redmond last Thursday to discuss editing API and related events.
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> We've been informed that Gecko/Firefox does not fire keydown/keyup events during input method composition for each key stroke.  Could someone from Mozilla clarify why this is desirable behavior?
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> We think it's better to fire keydown/keyup events for consistency across browsers.  If anything authors can detect that a given keydown/keyup event is associated with input methods by listening to composition events as well.
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> - R. Niwa
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>


Masayuki should clarify this, but as far as I know, this case depends on the IME software one is using, and nothing guarantees browser
gets any sane key events.


-Olli

Received on Sunday, 10 January 2016 02:18:13 UTC