Looks like the problem is OS-specific. In Ubuntu 9.10, for example, there is an option that is enabled by default in the user's keyboard preferences which causes key-holds to simulate multiple key-presses. Turning this off results in the expected behavior. On Windows, the default behavior is for key-holds to behave like key-holds so no problem exists.
Any suggestions for normalizing behavior across platforms? Keith On Jan 5, 3:38 pm, Keith Hughitt <keith.hugh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm creating a method for the first time which causes some action to > happen while a key is pressed. I've noticed, however, that the 'keyup' > event which I would normally use to determine when the key is > released is fired continually, even when the key is still being > pressed. > > e.g. > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ > TR/html4/strict.dtd"> > <html> > <head> > <title>jQuery > Keyup Test</title> > <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/ > jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> > </head> > <body> > <script type="text/javascript"> > $(function () { > $(document).keydown(function (e) { > console.log("keydown"); > }).keyup(function (e) { > console.log("KEYUP"); > });}); > > </script> > </body> > </html> > > Instead of seeing "keydown", "keydown"..."keydown", "KEYUP". It > switches back and forth between the two continually. So far I've > tested the same demo in FF 3.5, 3.7 and Chrome 3.x. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks!
