Can't we just stopPropagation/preventDefault on keycode 27?

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On 12/4/06, Phil Mayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 12:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  >Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>  >>On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:08:05 +0000, Phil Mayers
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  >>wrote:
>  >>>Why?
>  >>>
>  >>>
http://divmod.org/trac/browser/trunk/Nevow/nevow/js/Nevow/Athena/__init__.js#L570
>  >>
>  >>Lack of time to implement something different.
>  >
>  >Ok, I guess what I'm asking is - why is it ever necessary for the
> client to
>  >execute a close of the live connection via the keyboard (other than
>  >debugging of course) and will anything break if I comment that out?
>  >
>  >I'm guessing not.
>
> If escape isn't handled, then sometimes it will invoke the "stop"
> button, which causes random non-deterministic connection failures which
> aren't immediately reported.  I don't entirely understand the situation,
> but an immediate failure is better than what was happening before.
>
> I believe this is actually fixable, but as JP says, we don't have time
> at the moment.

Hrm. Interesting. Ok. It's hardly a critical problem, thanks for taking
the time to reply (FWIW I was handling escape to trigger closure of an
autocomplete dropdown <div>)

Do you happen to know what browsers the escape==stop behaviour occurs
under? I might take a look at it.

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