- From: Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:58:57 -0400
For what it's worth, I am actually of the opposite opinion, Ash. I like it when Flash steals the focus of the keyboard, and here's why: Besides the arrow keys, which are available to everyone, I also use the "Find As You Type" feature in Firefox. However, that usually means that I can't play any HTML5 games that use letters as play keys. Because the HTML5 game usually doesn't steal the focus of the keyboard, typing a letter key activates the FAYT feature and distracts me from the game. With that being said, Bespin (from Mozilla Labs) uses <canvas>, and it has no problem stealing the keyboard focus (with JavaScript) for most keypresses. Gordon 2010/6/14 Ashley Sheridan <ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk> > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 13:38 -0600, Carlos Andr?s Sol?s wrote: > > Hello! I've been noticing a problem in many HTML5 test apps, very > especially games. When the directional arrow buttons are pressed, the screen > scrolls. This is a problem that, as far as I know, Flash had solved by > changing the focus of the application to the app. Is this doable in HTML5? > - Carlos Sol?s > > > I don't think it's something that was 'solved' by Flash. To be honest, I'm > often annoyed at the way Flash steals the focus of all my key presses making > it almost impossible to navigate using only the keyboard. > > You could use Javascript to put the focus onto an object, capture all the > key presses on that and return false for them all maybe. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- Gordon P. Hemsley me at gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/ ? http://gphemsley.org/blog/ http://sasha.sourceforge.net/ ? http://www.yoursasha.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100614/5100b46e/attachment.htm>
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