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Hasty Treat - Keyboard Events Are Surprisingly Interesting
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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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