On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:56:33 -0400, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:

On 10/30/09 6:41 PM, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
Is there a good way to solve that though? Or is that something that
should just be left as YMMV?

Well, you could require an alert to block all key event delivery to
the web page, right?

Would that be a desirable solution? Is that hard to implement?

I don't know, and I don't know. The answer to the latter question depends strongly on the precise event model the browser is using, how it interacts with the OS, what it actually does for alert, etc.

Another thing I noticed:

With the attached, 'keyup' doesn't fire if you use an alert() in the 'keydown' or 'keypress' handler.

Well, actually, it fires sometimes in Firefox and Safari, but it's not very consistent. Avoiding alert()s makes things more consistent.

I also noticed that with the attached in Opera, if you press the spacebar in the field, the alert that pops up disappears right away because the space somehow gets invoked on the OK button on the alert().

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Michael

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