ISSUE-149 (missing key values): The multiply and other key values are missing 
[DOM3 Events]

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/149

Raised by: Doug Schepers
On product: DOM3 Events

Travis Leithead 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010OctDec/0032.html>:
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During implementation of the 'key' and 'char' properties in IE9, we discovered 
that there appears to be a missing key from the Key Values Set (6.2.7).

For the number-pad keys, there are already keys provided in the list in the 
current draft of the spec for:

*         "Add"

*         "Subtract"

*         "Divide"

*         "Decimal"

*         "Subtract"

However, "Multiply" is missing.

I do not know if this is a deliberate omission because of the text in the final 
paragraph of section 6.2, which says: "due to the lack of a multiplication key 
on many keyboard".

The Windows OS is providing this named key ["Multiply"] to IE, and therefore to 
other browsers as well. I propose that "Multiply" be added to the list of Key 
Value Set.
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<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010OctDec/0034.html>:
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In implementation of IE9's support for the 'key' and 'char' properties of the 
Keyboard event, we found that additional named keys provide char values, which 
are not explicitly called out in the current editor's draft of section 6.2.7.

The subset we have identified so far, which we expect users to want char values 
for are listed below:

key Name        Char value
'Add'           +
'Decimal'       .
'Divide'        /
'Enter'         \n
'Multiply'      *
'Subtract'      -

It is our recommendation that these 'char' values be added to the spec's list 
of Key Values Set.
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