ISSUE-139: Define which events repeat when a key is held down

clarify key repeat

Define which events repeat when a key is held down

State:

CLOSED

Product:

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

Raised by:

Doug Schepers

Opened on:

2010-10-06

Description:

Hallvord R. M. Steen <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010JulSep/0178.html>:
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spec currently says:
> Depending on the system configuration, holding down a key
> results may result in multiple consecutive keydown events,
> keypress events, and textInput events, for appropriate keys

Leaving aside the grammatical mistake ('results may result'), the spec is
too vague here. Web content requires that we repeatedly send
keydown+keypress [1]. Implementations that support this should also repeat
textInput and input events after keypress.

Suggested replacement text:

"Holding down a key must result in repeating the events keydown, keypress
and textInput in this order, at a rate determined by the system
configuration."

(And I'm absolutely sure this is an issue and must be fixed, because Opera
currently breaks docs.google.com by not repeating correctly :-p)
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1. Re: ISSUE-139 (clarify key repeat): Define which events repeat when a key is held down [DOM3 Events] (from jrossi@microsoft.com on 2011-04-18)
2. ISSUE-139 (clarify key repeat): Define which events repeat when a key is held down [DOM3 Events] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-10-06)

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