Hok no longer receives keypress events because bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501496 has been resolved

[diegov]

Hi,

A fix for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501496 was released in a Firefox nightly build a few days ago, which caused Hok to stop working, because it calls event.preventDefault() on the keydown event, which now causes the following keypress to be cancelled.

I've patched it locally by removing the preventDefault call in the preventEvent Hok function, which works fine in my setup, but I don't know whether it would be a valid solution in all cases. It works OK with eg. inputs since we're still preventing the keypress default, but I haven't done much testing in other scenarios.

In any case, the FF bug fix will break Hok as soon as it gets merged into FF stable, so a Hok change will probably be necessary.

Cheers!

[mooz]

Thank you for very informative comment. As just removing preventDefault is problematic, I made a little modification to keyhandlers.