Optimizing User Experience with Keyboard Shortcuts

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about keyboard events and some of the fascinating things you can do with them!

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Show Notes

03:04 - The Events

• http://keycode.info/
• keydown
• beforeInput
• Keypress - deprecated
• inputType tells you whether the event is inserting text, replacing text, inserting a line break, etc.
• keyup
• change event - only fires when you focus out
• https://github.com/w3c/uievents/issues/220

08:02 - Event meta data

"key": "c", "keyCode": 67, "which": 67, "code": "KeyC", "location": 0, "altKey": false, "ctrlKey": false, "metaKey": true, "shiftKey": false

• Others:
  • .locale
  • .repeat

16:46 - Media keys

• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/chrome-73-media-updates
• play, pause, ect
• Overkill app: https://krausefx.com/blog/introducing-overkill-dont-let-itunes-interrupt-your-workflow

18:32 - When might you use key codes?

• Space bar to stop a video on a page
• Building a game
• Making a web app feel more like an app

Links

• Better Touch Tool
• Syntax 315: Hasty Treat - Hyper Productivity with Keyboard Shortcuts + Window Management

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