KeyboardEvent API: repeat - Not working in chrome

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What type of issue is this?

Browser bug (a bug with a feature that may impact site compatibility)

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_keyboardevent_repeat reports KeyboardEvent API repeat to be supported in Chrome.

According to this issue in the bug tracker: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40940886 this is not true.

Specific key pressed results in the incorrect value being set (making the API unusable). According to their own regression tests, this has always been the case, so it's not considered a regression, and is now assigned a P3 (so not planned to be fixed in the years to come).

What browsers does this problem apply to, if applicable?

Chromium (Chrome, Edge 79+, Opera, Samsung Internet)

What did you expect to see?

The browser should report the correct "repeat" value, it instead consistently report an incorrect one.

Did you test this? If so, how?

See https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40940886, there's a JSFiddle here: https://jsfiddle.net/ys6o5tfg/5/

1. Press and hold: ArrowLeft, ArrowUp, ArrowRight (in this order)
2. Release ArrowLeft (while keeping ArrowUp and ArrowRight pressed)
3. See that KEYDOWN ArrowRight is printed in the div (i.e. a keydown event with repeat = false is emitted for ArrowRight)

Can you link to any release notes, bugs, pull requests, or MDN pages related to this?

See the upstream bug: See https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40940886

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