There is actually some standardisation effort going on for HTML's keyDown/keyPress/keyUp events: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#events-keyboardevents We should make sure noVNC properly follows this and clearly separate out the compatibility hacks for older/non-conformant browsers. This should solve several known bugs in the current implementation.
Also interesting for the hacky portions: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dom3events/raw-file/tip/html/Note-KeyProps.html
Might be interesting: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/pull/314
See bug 4808 for one fairly comprehensive list of keyboard bugs.
For now, this bug is about checking out the upstream work. If it turns out that they are not targeting the standard, then we'll have to split things up in to multiple bugs.
Been trying the upstream code. A first glance says that it will not fix many issues, but it will also not introduce many new. It seems like new browser versions have changed a few things in this as well. For example, Firefox on Android seems to not use keyEvents anymore which leads to the fix for bug 4602 (input event fallback implemented for Chrome on Android) being used. A problem with backspace seems to have been introduced in newer versions on both Chrome and Firefox on Android. I have reported a bug for this upstream: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/344
(In reply to comment #5) > A problem with backspace seems to have been introduced in > newer versions on both Chrome and Firefox on Android. > > I have reported a bug for this upstream: > https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/344 This bug was extended to include fixing this backspace problem on Android. I committed this work upstream and the fix is included in the vendordrop in commit 28807.
(In reply to comment #5) > Been trying the upstream code. A first glance says that it will not fix many > issues, but it will also not introduce many new. The upstream code fixes Alt-Gr where it was broken before. I have tested the following platforms and browsers: Windows 7: IE10 Windows 8: IE11, Firefox 27, Chrome 33 Fedora 18: Firefox 27, Firefox 28, Chrome 33, Chrome 34 Mac OS X 10.9: Safari 7 Android 4.4: Firefox 27, Firefox 28, Chrome 33, Chrome 34 iOS 7: Safari 7, Chrome 32 The only regression that has been spotted so far with the upstream code is that keyboard input doesn't work properly on IE10. A fix seems to be in the works for this: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/352 I tested the code mentioned in that issue and it does indeed seem to work. Overall the keyboard code works well in all browsers on all client platforms that I have tested with a few exceptions, these are not regressions: - Dead keys doesn't work in Firefox on Linux. Upstream-bug: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/350 - When pressing the Enter/Go-key in Chrome on Android, the on screen keyboard is closed. Upstream-bug: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/356
I reopen this and wait for the IE10 fix to be properly committed upstream. Will do a new vendor drop after that.
Commit 28811 - vnc.tmpl updated to reflect changes in vnc.html from the vendordrop.
(In reply to comment #7) > - When pressing the Enter/Go-key in Chrome on Android, the on screen keyboard > is closed. Upstream-bug: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/356 It is more important to have a properly functioning Enter key on Chrome than to not have text suggestions. The vendordrop in commit 28823 fixes this. The resulting problem with text suggestions is illustrated well by the screenshots in the upstream bug: https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/357
*** Bug 5079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #11) > *** Bug 5079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** The problem found here was due to a mistake in the vendordrop in r28807. This problem was fixed in r28826. Another merge miss was fixed in r28825.
(In reply to comment #8) > I reopen this and wait for the IE10 fix to be properly committed upstream. Will > do a new vendor drop after that. Fixed in commit 28846. Two additional fixes were also committed: r28841 - keep vnc.tmpl in sync with vnc.html r28840 - add missing import Marking this as resolved now.
Created attachment 542 [details] Test protocol of keyboards in different platform / browser combinations. Attached file includes test cases and protocol of issue for keyboard handling. Pierre has verified that the results is not worse than before.
Opened a new bug #5135 with up-to-date keyboard issues, and closing this now when it shows better results then before.
