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

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