59225 - event.keyCode doesn't return expected value?

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58709

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Using N6 11/1 on WinNT 4.0 SP6.

The above test page claims to test support for the onkeypress attribute. In IE
5.5, you can press the numbers on the keyboard (except 4) and be taken to the
appropriate page by the onkeypress handler, which changes the page location. In
N6, pressing the number keys has no effect.

I suspect this is because the W3C DOM2 specifies a different way of accessing
the value of the key that was pressed than event.keyCode, which is what this
demo depends on. Can someone (a) confirm this, and (b) tell me what alternative
properties of the event object that the developer should use to access the value?

Or is the problem that this relies on the existence of a global event object
attached to the window object (which is an ie-ism) and that in N6 the event
can't be accessed in this way? In that case, is the answer to receive the event
object passed into the handler function as an argument and access it that way?

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

this is probably a duplicate of another bug that was filed in the last few weeks...

I'd *guess* that the fix is to access "charCode" rather than "keyCode"
I do NOT know if this stuff actually made it into any type of specification or
not so I'm not sure if we're "right" or "wrong" or just "different" :-/

Comment 2

[vidur (gone)]

There are 2 problems:
1) The key events spec from the W3C DOM Group did not go out with DOM Level 2.
We implemented a version of it that is now obsolete. Our implementation is also
compatible with Nav 4.x. To get the character code of the key pressed, you can
either use event.which (Nav 4.x terminology) or event.charCode (Nav 6 only way).
event.keyCode is an IE-ism that we actually do implement for keyup and keydown
events, but not for keypress events.
2) The test also makes the assumption, as Eric speculated, that the IE-specific
window.event exists. The test should include an "event" parameter to the
function gototest.

I'm attaching a version that does work...

Comment 3

[vidur (gone)]

Attachment: Version of original test that works in NS6

Comment 4

[Loco]

Yes, I believe it is a duplicate of 58709.  If you think not, or that I'm rushing 
to conclusions, slap me.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58709 ***

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

vrfy