ISSUE-163: Change "key is depressed" to "modifier was active"

depressed keys

Change "key is depressed" to "modifier was active"

State:

CLOSED

Product:

HISTORICAL: DOM3 Events [All Bugs and Issues use Bugzilla: http://tinyurl.com/Bugs-DOM3Events]

Raised by:

Doug Schepers

Opened on:

2010-10-20

Description:

David Flanagan <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2010OctDec/0065.html>:
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8) In the boxes describing keydown, keyup and keypress, you describe the
altKey, and related event properties using the word "depressed".
Elsewhere you've used vaguer language like "activated", and I've assumed
that is to account for the possibility of locking modifier keys for
accessibility reasons. If so, you should probably change "key is
depressed" to "modifier is active" in these boxes. (Past tense might
actually be better: "modifier was active").
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1. Re: ISSUE-163 (depressed keys): Change 'key is depressed' to 'modifier was active' [DOM3 Events] (from jrossi@microsoft.com on 2011-03-31)
2. ISSUE-163 (depressed keys): Change 'key is depressed' to 'modifier was active' [DOM3 Events] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-10-20)

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