577630 - Inconsistent handling of keyboard events (comparing across platforms and toolkits)

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[James Cook]

The keyboard event handling is strange and inconsistent.  I've been doing some basic tests on Firefox for Windows and on Linux with the GTK and Qt builds of Fennec and have seen that key repeat on the three versions send key events (for 3 repetitions) as...

Windows: key down, key press, key down, key press, key down, key press, key up
GTK: key down, key press, key up, key down, key press, key up, key down, key press, key up
Qt: key down, key press, key up, key press, key up, key press, key up

You can see this output if you go to somewhere like http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events/keys.html.