On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Florian Bösch <pya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > >> What are the cases where webpage-driven (as opposed to >> browser-chrome-driven) fullscreen is really compelling, but they need full >> keyboard access including alphanumeric keys? (Not saying there aren't any, >> I am just not sure what they would be - fullscreen Nethack?) >> > There are many games that require key input. There exist popular > keymappings for certain genres (such FPSes) that are colloquially shortned > to the moniker WASD. FPS games (and any other game that uses the mouse for > view control) usually prefers WASD over cursor keys because it allows the > arms to rest at a relaxed position, whereas using the cursor keys for the > same either involves a painful posture or an adjustment of the keyboard > position. > > Beyond the simple directional control, which give you 2 axes of freedom. > There are games (such as descent, flight simulators, strategy games etc) > where often a third axis might be needed. A common input scheme for these > games is QWEASD. > > Beyond a simple 3-axis implementation there are categories of games (like > RTSes or RPGs) which make heavy use of shortcuts (for instance starcraft > and world of warcraft, nethack, etc.) because they need to deal with a > large catalogue of actions to be performed and clicking around in menus > would mostly be undesired by frequent players. > > Beyond axial control and shortcuts games do require keyboard input for > text (such as in entering an avatar nickname, chatting etc.) > > Beyond axial control, shortcuts and text input there is a good reason to > allow people to map the game action keys to whatever keys they prefer. It > is considered bad form to assume everybody is comfortable with the same > input scheme/locations. This problem becomes especially apparent in > physically disabled users who often cannot use standard input schemes at > all. > I'm not sure where this falls, but how would things like control-w or cmd-w work? If the non-alphanumerics work, but the alphanumerics do not... will that close the window? Thanks! Rick