- From: Hallvord R. M. Steen <hallvord@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 22:02:13 +0200
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Hi, I assume the intention of event.key as specified is to be able to distinguish any key on the keyboard by their input or key name. Here's a question that was concerning me: say one uses a keyboard definition that maps certain keys to multiple characters. For example, if keys are configured to insert strings like "Up", "Down", "Left", "Right", "End", "Esc", "Home".. It seems to me that event.key would be set to the corresponding string and there would be no way in our API to distinguish such a key press from pressing the actual up/down/left/right arrow, end, esc or home keys. Is that intentional? (FWIW, personally I think it would be nicer to have event.key and event.keyName rather than trying to conflate the two into one property. Don't remember if I already suggested that and it was rejected.) -- Hallvord R. M. Steen, Core Tester, Opera Software http://www.opera.com http://my.opera.com/hallvors/
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