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by eqdw 5492 days ago
Idea: Instead of asking for someone's vote, have them type out a paragraph and measure which shift they use
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Does javascript differentiate between left and right shift?

edit: Looks like it doesn't care. Interesting fact, if you bind an "keydown" event to something, it will fire when you hit caps lock to turn it on, but not to turn it off.

Haven't found a way to do it with JS - I don't think it's possible. Apparently you can do it with Java http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/ev...