Re: [DOM3Events] keydown/keyup asymmetry for held keys (key repeating) from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-06-22 (www-dom@w3.org from April to June 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:03:08 -0400
To: www-dom@w3.org
Message-ID: <4E024A7C.9090408@mit.edu>

On 6/22/11 4:00 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
> Adding keypress events to non-character-producing keys (in order to
> capture those repetitions) may be more likely to cause disruptions to
> existing web content, which may not expect keypress for those

Given that Gecko fires keypress for those, this seems somewhat unlikely.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 20:03:37 UTC