[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 38241] [Win, Chrome] The key event when pressing AltGr key sets altGraphKey=false

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--- Comment #5 from Hironori Bono <hbono at chromium.org>  2010-05-05 19:41:24 PST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> This property was added in <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/5402>, because it
> was present in DOM 3 Events spec at the time. It's no longer in the spec.
> 
> But my understanding is that AltGr is not the same as right Alt -
> event.altGraphKey should be false if one presses the right Alt key on a U.S.
> keyboard layout, but it should be true if the same physical key is pressed on a
> Polish keyboard layout. I'm not 100% sure about that, and I don't know how we
> can tell the difference.

Thank you for your comment.
To read the issue list of W3C (*1), it seems W3C people dropped this
altGraphKey attribute because they encourage to use the keyLocation property to
distinguish a left key and a right key. I would like to cancel this review
request and write another change that adds DOM_LOCATION_RIGHT to the
keyLocation attribute as written in the latest DOM spec. (I don't stick to this
change at all because I just would like to provide a method to distinguish a
left key and a right key.)

(*1) <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/DOM-Level-3-Events-issues/issues.html#duerst19>

Sorry for bothering you with this change.

Regards,

Hironori Bono

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