Who stole my keyboard?

[venta]

Hmm. If I go to the BBC's US Election Map (and who hasn't, this morning?) and click on a state, my browser stops responding to keyboard shortcuts. Why would that be ? (I'm using Firefox 3)

I presume whatever cleverness is used to render the map is trapping keyboard events, but I've no idea why it would do that.

Comments

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

I think because it's Flash. I've had it on other pages too with Flash (can't think of any examples off the top of my head)

[chrisvenus]

Yeah, I've not programmed flash but you can control it with keyboard so it has to trap stuff. I assume there probably is a way to pass on the keyboard presses if you don't want them or something but yeah, if flash has focus it will munch on keyboard presses.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Ctrl-T, Ctrl-W, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-R all work fine for me (also using FF3). What shortcuts are you seeing not working?

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

All them ones when the map has focus.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ah, yes. That would be me not reading the post properly. I think that's pretty standard though with Flash isn't it?

[venta.livejournal.com]

It might be - I try to avoid Flash, so may just not have noticed before.