ISSUE-161: Clarify KeyboardEvent.key

KeyboardEvent.key

Clarify KeyboardEvent.key

State:

CLOSED

Product:

HISTORICAL: DOM3 Events [All Bugs and Issues use Bugzilla: http://tinyurl.com/Bugs-DOM3Events]

Raised by:

Doug Schepers

Opened on:

2010-10-20

Description:

David Flanagan <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010OctDec/0065.html>:
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6) In the description of KeyboardEvent.key, it says "If the value is a
character, it must match the value of the KeyboardEvent.char attribute."
First, is "character" formally defined somewhere, or you mean
something like "If the key has a printable representation". Second:
what about the case of keyboard macros? If I've somehow bound Ctrl-J to
insert the string "JavaScript", then I would expect a Ctrl-J
KeyboardEvent to have "JavaScript" as its char value and "J" as its key
value. If this is the correct behavior then the phrase "must match" in
the spec is a problem. If keyboard macros are supposed to get expanded
into the key property, then that allows us to fake out keys that we
don't have on our keyboards by defining keyboard macros. In that case,
if I define a macro to insert the string "Camera", then that macro might
cause a webapp to behave as if the Camera key had been pressed. (It
almost seems like there is a security issue there...)

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1. RE: Re: ISSUE-161 ISSUE-160 ISSUE-159 ISSUE-158 ISSUE-156 (from Jacob.Rossi@microsoft.com on 2011-07-29)
2. Re: ISSUE-161 ISSUE-160 ISSUE-159 ISSUE-158 (from Jacob.Rossi@microsoft.com on 2011-07-29)
3. ISSUE-161 (KeyboardEvent.key): Clarify KeyboardEvent.key [DOM3 Events] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-10-20)

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