Re: activating behaviours

I understand that issues might exist when adding keyboard events if the 
different OS's or browsers have different default behaviours. However, I 
wonder how would you expect to manage keyboard interaction without 
attaching keyboard events to the custom controls (unless you pretend 
that developers don't use custom controls at all, which obviously will 
not occur).

If you see the radiogroup example in my presentation, space bar is not 
the only key being considered. Indeed, I've noticed that in some 
browsers it works directly, even if I don't include an event handler for 
the space bar.

But I cannot figure out a way to achieve the final result without 
programming keyboard events for the arrow keys. In a radio-group only 
the group itself is focusable, not each individual radio-button. 
Individual radio-buttons are accesed using the arrow keys. So, how would 
you manage to control focus without keyboard events?

I guess that Indie UI will solve this problems in the future, but it 
will take a long time to reach that point.

Cheers,
Ramón.

 > re-programming keyboard events

Received on Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:13:25 UTC