Re: ISSUE-163 (depressed keys): Change "key is depressed" to "modifier was active" [DOM3 Events] from Jacob Rossi on 2011-03-31 (www-dom@w3.org from January to March 2011)

From: Jacob Rossi <jrossi@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:23:19 +0000
To: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
CC: "david@davidflanagan.com" <david@davidflanagan.com>
Message-ID: <D0BC8E77E79D9846B61A2432D1BA4EAE02803256@TK5EX14MBXC116.redmond.corp.microsoft.>

Per our resolution, the phrase "key is pressed" has been changed to "modifier was active" throughout the spec. The use of past tense clarifies that these properties represent the state of the modifiers at the time the event occurred. This affects KeyboardEvent and MouseEvent.

Thanks,

Jacob

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