--- In [email protected], Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andreas Neumann wrote: > >The newest widget is a textbox. Coding this object was a major > >pain since browsers don't support keyboard events consistently. > > I'd be most interested in hearing more about the problems you had, could > you post your findings to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list so the > Working Group can consider them in the context of the DOM Level 3 Events > specification?
I don't know if these are new problems, they are probably well-known. Here is a short list: * collissions with shortcuts (e.g. backspace key, goes back in the history). yes, there is evt.preventDefault(), but it doesn't always work. see example with Opera9 at http:// www.carto.net/neumann/operasvgbugs/ambiguous_keyboard_events.svg (try the backspace key) * some UAs support evt.charCode, some support evt.keyCode, some both * some UAs react on "keydown" others on "keypress", others on both * some UAs repeatedly report events if the key is pressed for a longer time, some don't * some UAs don't report that certain meta keys are pressed. e.g. Mozilla doesn't report if the shift key is pressed. It only reports it in combination with other keys. * in Opera 9 some key events are ambiguous, because it only supports evt.keyCode and not evt.charCode. see also example http://www.carto.net/neumann/operasvgbugs/ ambiguous_keyboard_events.svg with Opera9. In other browsers I can distinguish the ambiguous characters because they are either reported as evt.keyCode or as evt.charCode * some UAs report evt.timeStamp, some don't. I think with a little research the list of inconistencies between UAs regarding key event handling can be made longer. I am not subscribed in the public-webapi mailinglist, but please feel free to forward my message. Andreas ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
