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#11997 closed feature (plugin)
Opened July 01, 2012 08:34PM UTC
Closed July 03, 2012 04:48PM UTC
Feature enhancement: Add hasModifiers() to jQuery.Event
| Reported by: | michael@mahemoff.com | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.7.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
I'd propose a method for events which would be true if any of shiftKey, metaKey, etc are true.
This is an important use case for PJAX/HTML5-history apps following the practice of graceful degradation. You create a normal link and hijack it to open the page via Ajax using event.preventDefault(). However, this behaviour breaks user expectations when a modifier is in effect - users will expect the link to act as a normal link and open in a new tab/window or open the popup menu. So a convenience method would be useful in many modern web apps.
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Changed July 03, 2012 04:48PM UTC by comment:1
| resolution: | → plugin |
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| status: | new → closed |
This seems better as a plugin, or simply as app-specific code. It wouldn't get used at all within touch-based apps, for example.