Re: DOM Keyboard Event Level 3 questions about proposal

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Hallvord R. M. Steen <hallvord@opera.com>wrote:

> Of course, we still don't have a solution for the use case "I want to use
> keys that are in a specific location on the keyboard for my shortcuts"
> (disregarding configurations like azerty vs qwerty) - but that's more of a
> corner case and arguably one we should not accomodate because it makes the
> web app less portable?


I suppose this is less for shortcuts within text-like web apps, and more
about first-person games wanting to default to the equivalent of "WASD" on
the user's keyboard?  Not supporting physical layout information makes that
web app less portable, not more, since it's building a keyboard layout
dependency into the app.

(I don't have any real opinion either way on whether it's worth it, though.)

-- 
Glenn Maynard