1593232 - Help key doesn't send a keydown

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect, 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 the Help key on a macOS machine

Actual results:

I got just a keyup event.

Expected results:

I got a keydown event, then a keyup event.

Comment 1

[John Dai[:jdai]]

Dear reporter,
Thank you for reporting this bug. What is your platform? Your description contains a macOS machine and Fedora with Linux x86_64. Also, could you provide more information and STR about how to reproduce? What it the Help key in your description? Thank you.

Comment 2

[Pierre Ossman]

(In reply to John Dai[:jdai] from comment #1)

Dear reporter,
What is your platform? Your description contains a macOS machine and Fedora with Linux x86_64.

The platform being tested is a macOS 14 machine. However I filled out this bug report from a different machine, running Fedora.

Also, could you provide more information and STR about how to reproduce? What it the Help key in your description? Thank you.

macOS doesn't have an Insert key. Instead that spot has a key labeled Help. I.e. press the key next to Home and Delete.

Comment 3

[Pierre Ossman]

This page can be used to easily see the behaviour:

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/d4e/raw-file/tip/key-event-test.html

Comment 4

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

It seems the key the reporter means is labeled "Fn" on modern keyboards, see https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-keyboard-vs-old-version-283536.

Comment 5

[Pierre Ossman]

Ah. I see.

I'm afraid we don't have one of those for testing here. Does that Fn key generate any key event by itself? Or does it simply modify what other keys generate?

Comment 6

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

(In reply to Pierre Ossman from comment #5)

Ah. I see.

I'm afraid we don't have one of those for testing here. Does that Fn key generate any key event by itself? Or does it simply modify what other keys generate?

It doesn't generate any key events.