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Bug 382011
Opened 18 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
accesskey event for easier content shortcut handling
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(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)
Core
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
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(Reporter: zeniko, Unassigned)
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The only save modifier combo for web content seems to be <contentAccess>, i.e. Alt+Shift on Windows/Linux and Ctrl on OS X (see bug 380637 comment #20). Since the modifier isn't static and is even customizable through about:config, there's no clean way of easily implementing shortcuts in JavaScript alone.
Before web apps start kidnapping more commonly used shortcuts such as Ctrl+S (which currently _is_ possible - see bug 380637), we might want to offer them an "accesskey" event in the same way we already offer "keypress" events (except that they only bubble from <body> upwards).
For symmetry reasons, the same event should also be usable in chrome, of course being triggered by <chromeAccess> instead.
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As an alternative, adding an .accessKey property to KeyEvent (similar to .altKey, etc.) would do the job almost as nicely as well.
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Updated•6 years ago
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Component: Event Handling → User events and focus handling
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Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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