[whatwg] focus change inside keypress event handler

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> On 10/29/09 5:24 PM, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
>> I think so. The event target isn't changed by focus().
>>
>> But, in Firefox, Safari and Opera, it's possible to change what  
>> element
>> the text is inserted into by changing the focus in 'keydown'.
>
> Right; that happens because the keydown and keypress events need not  
> fire on the same element and because the text entry is the keypress  
> default action.  In Gecko, that is.  I can't speak to Safari and  
> Opera.

WebKit also makes typing take effect as the default action for  
"keypress", at least for normal typing. It's more complicated when  
international text input methods are in play.

Regards,
Maciej