Hasty Treat - Keyboard Events Are Surprisingly Interesting
Feb 08, 2021•22 min
Episode description
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about keyboard events and some of the fascinating things you can do with them!
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Show Notes 03:04 - The Events
http://keycode.info/
keydown
beforeInput
Keypress - deprecated
inputType tells you whether the event is inserting text, replacing text, inserting a line break, etc.
keyup
change event - only fires when you focus out
https://github.com/w3c/uievents/issues/220
08:02 - Event meta data
"key": "c", "keyCode": 67, "which": 67, "code": "KeyC", "location": 0, "altKey": false, "ctrlKey": false, "metaKey": true, "shiftKey": false Others: .locale
.repeat
16:46 - Media keys
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/chrome-73-media-updates
play, pause, ect
Overkill app: https://krausefx.com/blog/introducing-overkill-dont-let-itunes-interrupt-your-workflow
18:32 - When might you use key codes?
Space bar to stop a video on a page
Building a game
Making a web app feel more like an app
Links Better Touch Tool
Syntax 315: Hasty Treat - Hyper Productivity with Keyboard Shortcuts + Window Management
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