Is Document.get().createKeyPressEvent() not available in IE11?

Is there any way for a GWT app to use createKeyPressEvent (or equivalent) in IE11? I just isolated an odd browser console error message to com.google.gwt.d

Is Document.get().createKeyPressEvent() not available in IE11?

Apparently, on IE one could use initKeyboardEvent (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent), and on "modern browsers" one should rather use the constructor. Key/keyboard event handling is such a mess… and synthesizing those events is almost useless anyway… There's an issue

Re: Is Document.get().createKeyPressEvent() not available in IE11?

This ended up being the critical clue: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff975945(d=printer,v=vs.85).aspx ...plus a lot of tedious jsfiddle attempts to dial in the precise method signature. On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 12:48:39 AM UTC-8, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > Apparently, on IE one

Re: Is Document.get().createKeyPressEvent() not available in IE11?

FWIW, this was the original report: https://code.google.com/archive/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/8463 https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/8447 It was one of the reports branched from: https://code.google.com/archive/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/8228 https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/issues/82