fluid-work Digest, Vol 13, Issue 31

[Chris Hoffman]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 12:00 -0400, fluid-work-request at fluidproject.org
        wrote:
        
        > From: Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu>
        > Subject: Safari 3.1 changes keypress events
        > To: fluid-work at fluidproject.org
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        > I had trouble following all of this posting but I'm going to
        give it  
        > another read when I'm more awake:
        > 
        > http://ejohn.org/blog/keypress-in-safari-31/
        
        If I recall correctly, Safari is changing some of the codes
        returned to
        the keypress event when non-character printing keys are pressed
        (e.g.
        arrows or delete). It turns out that this is a non-issue because
        you
        should be using keydown events, rather than keypress events, for
        non-character printing keys anyway. Use keypress only when you
        need to
        know what the user has typed, e.g. into a text box.
        
        Chris