On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Brad Pettit <Brad.Pettit@microsoft.com>wrote: > > As for the physical aspects of keys, there is also the human interface > device aspect. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human_interface_device_class#USB_HID_APIand > http://www.lvr.com/hidpage.htm > > If an app cares about the keyboard at such a hardware level, perhaps a > completely new set of events, or even a raw scan code state, should be > exposed. > Have you taken a look at the UI Events (formerly DOM4 Events) spec: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/d4e/raw-file/tip/source_respec.htm We initially proposed using something like USB scancodes to the Keyboard events, and that has evolved into the above spec. For context, see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2012JulSep/0103.html and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012OctDec/0623.html Looking forward to any comments you may have, -Gary
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