Joystick

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From Robin Berjon:

New Key Identifiers

  JoystickUp
    The joystick's up orientation.
  JoystickDown
    The joystick's down orientation.
  JoystickLeft
    The joystick's left orientation.
  JoystickRight
    The joystick's right orientation.
  JoystickOk
    The joystick's OK.
  MobileLeft
    The left application key on a mobile device.
  MobileRight
    The right application key on a mobile device.

From Doug Schepers:

* Intensity of directionality: some joysticks have faster movement the
further the stick is pushed from center. It is sometimes gradual, and
sometimes there is a quantum threshold. I propose that we have a single
property that captures this, somewhat like "wheelDelta". Perhaps "magnitude"
or "intensity" (my girlfriend suggests "increasification" because it sounds
Presidential), with a value from 0 to 1 ("0" would be the minimum, not
null).

From Ian Hickson (with agreement by Maciej Stachowiak, Jonas Sicking, and Cameron McCormack):

Why not use these?:

   Up
   Down
   Left
   Right
   Enter
   F1
   F2

...?

That way applications built to support arrow keys automatically work on 
mobile devices without having to do anything special.

From Cameron McCormack:

I don't see any benefit from
having these as separate key identifiers unless you know of input
devices that have both the traditional arrow keys and the joystick
buttons, since, as Ian said, using common key identifiers will allow
scripts to work with keyboards and mobile keypads.

What about using KeyboardEvent.keyLocation to distinguish these two?
DOM_KEY_LOCATION_NUMPAD could be used for the joystick presses (the
mobile keyboard is sort of like the numpad on a computer keyboard).

Proposal

Use Up, Down, Left, Right keys instead of the joystick directions, with the value DOM_KEY_LOCATION_MOBILE (or DOM_KEY_LOCATION_KEYPAD, or DOM_KEY_LOCATION_NUMPAD) for KeyboardEvent.keyLocation.

Introduce an OK key, or just use Enter? Would it be smart to set up some equivalencies among certain keys like this, for more portable code?