- From: Hallvord R. M. Steen <hallvord@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:29:30 +0100
- To: www-dom@w3.org
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:42:23 +0100, Hallvord R. M. Steen <hallvord@opera.com> wrote: > Hi, > quick question: if one presses ctrl+b, what should event.key and > event.char be set to for the B key's keydown and keyup events? Ping :) I think this is a very important issue for the spec. If we don't specify this in full detail, the spec does not guarantee that implementations are compatible when it comes to the core functionality the spec is intended to enable. For example, if a web application wants to respond to an Alt-S shortcut, can it use .char and .key to do so? It's not clear to me. If it wants to handle Ctrl-B, should it detect whether event.char is the ASCII control character STX? (Isn't whether Ctrl-B is mapped to STX an even more arcane OS detail than the virtual key codes we're currently depending on, and likely to be even less portable?) Somebody should also address the questions Andrew Oakley brought up in this E-mail from January 26th: http://www.w3.org/mid/4F21428D.3010505@ado.is-a-geek.net -- Hallvord R. M. Steen, Core Tester, Opera Software http://www.opera.com http://my.opera.com/hallvors/
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