Re: [D3E] Gecko will start supporting KeyboardEvent.key from Firefox 23, but only for non-printable keys

On 08/11/2013 06:55 AM, Ojan Vafai wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Masayuki Nakano <masayuki@d-toybox.com <mailto:masayuki@d-toybox.com>> wrote:
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>     Basically, we don't define new DOM key name values except a few numbered keys such as Fxx and LaunchApplicationxx. D3E spec allows to name by
>     browser venders, but I'd like to suggest that such keys should be vender prefixed for compatibility between browsers in the future. The key values
>     are accessed with script. So, if they compare it with a value, they can drop the vender prefix by the script. So, it won't cause the problem like
>     CSS's vender prefix. Then, web developers don't believe any non-standard key names as standard (spec'ed) key names.
>
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> This seems to me that it shares many of the problems of CSS vendor prefixes. Web developers don't (and shouldn't need to!) keep track of browser
> release details. Most web developers will use it just the same whether it's MozPrintableKey or just PrintableKey and the only thing affecting whether
> it becomes something every browser needs to implement (and whether the feature can be changed) is the amount of web content that depends on it.


MozPrintableKey is just a temporary hack and prefixes in all forms should be avoided if possible.



-Olli