alt Hacker NewsAs a user, I’ve not thought too much about this before now. I agree with you mostly, but the keyup on space behaviour actually feels so innate I’d hate any change to it. Keydown on space is “jump”; nothing else.
As a user, I’ve not thought too much about this before now. I agree with you mostly, but the keyup on space behaviour actually feels so innate I’d hate any change to it. Keydown on space is “jump”; nothing else.
I’d just like to hear an explanation of why it is. Because if you handled “is key currently pressed” events with polling rather than events (which is how people almost always consume them logically), it would be the only thing in the entire world that I can think of that would/should use keyup.
Edit: I think people are misunderstanding me. I’m asking for an explanation of why, when you have a button focused, pressing Space activates on key up, rather than key down like literally everything else on the keyboard, including Enter on a focused button. (Mouse activates on release.)