[eyeris]

Not quite true. Worked at epic previously. Due to the culmination of a 10 year migration from VB to electron, the os level input buffer was discarded mid 2023 since electron doesn’t handle those the same way. The primary reason for this is that VB was pretty much synchronous. However, web technologies don’t act the same way because keeping your keyboard inout while navigating to a different site would be weird.

We added an input handler to queue inputs so that sequences of shortcuts and keypresses could be used.

Additionally, the internal framework we had allowed for shortcuts and we tried to replicate as much as could shortcut wise (as well as functionality wise). Almost everything should have a shortcut or a way to navigate to it via just keyboard — they had put in a lot of effort to ensure accessibility so that they could get the va contract that went to cerner(pre-oracle acquisition)

[jiggawatts]

> We added an input handler to queue inputs so that sequences of shortcuts and keypresses could be used.

You must be one of the few (or any) companies that did this.

This definitely doesn't work in the general case of SPA web apps.

[chrisjj]

> However, web technologies don’t act the same way because keeping your keyboard inout while navigating to a different site would be weird.

Depends. It is not the place of the underlying tech to impose such limits.