1593210 - Media keys 1 to 5 send non-standard events

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Events, task, P3)

Description

[Pierre Ossman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

Press media key 1 on a Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard

Actual results:

I got "LaunchApplication6" as the key value.

Expected results:

Not sure. The specification doesn't have any obvious choice. But "LaunchApplication6" is not in the standard and doesn't match what's printed on the key. Perhaps "Soft1"?

Comment 1

[Pierre Ossman]

Also reported to Chrome which have taken a different approach:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1020496

For reference, the underlying keysym is XF86Launch5. Not sure how the "5" got turned in to a "6", but there seems to be some connection here.

Comment 2

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

The spec defines starting from LaunchApplication1, X defines them starting from 0. Therefore, we map the X's number +1.