For what it's worth, I am actually of the opposite opinion, Ash. I like it when Flash steals the focus of the keyboard, and here's why: Besides the arrow keys, which are available to everyone, I also use the "Find As You Type" feature in Firefox. However, that usually means that I can't play any HTML5 games that use letters as play keys. Because the HTML5 game usually doesn't steal the focus of the keyboard, typing a letter key activates the FAYT feature and distracts me from the game.
With that being said, Bespin (from Mozilla Labs) uses <canvas>, and it has no problem stealing the keyboard focus (with JavaScript) for most keypresses. Gordon 2010/6/14 Ashley Sheridan <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 13:38 -0600, Carlos Andrés Solís wrote: > > Hello! I've been noticing a problem in many HTML5 test apps, very > especially games. When the directional arrow buttons are pressed, the screen > scrolls. This is a problem that, as far as I know, Flash had solved by > changing the focus of the application to the app. Is this doable in HTML5? > - Carlos Solís > > > I don't think it's something that was 'solved' by Flash. To be honest, I'm > often annoyed at the way Flash steals the focus of all my key presses making > it almost impossible to navigate using only the keyboard. > > You could use Javascript to put the focus onto an object, capture all the > key presses on that and return false for them all maybe. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- Gordon P. Hemsley m...@gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/ • http://gphemsley.org/blog/ http://sasha.sourceforge.net/ • http://www.yoursasha.com/
