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by aooeeu 4779 days ago
Not great if your keyboard is in Dvorak :-)
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elisee 4779 days ago
Yup, this is a real problem with game input on the Web platform right now. You can't get geographic keycodes, only virtual keycodes. I haven't stumbled on any specification / API proposal to fix this. Anybody know if browser vendors have something in the works?
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justinhj 4778 days ago
Until then an option to choose Dvorak for the user and manual remapping of the keys would work for apps that want to support those keyboards.
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elisee 4776 days ago
Yeah but then you need to support AZERTY (French), QWERTZ (Central Europe) and lots of other layouts too if you want to cover most people.
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raymond_goo 4778 days ago
good idea !
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KMBredt 4779 days ago
Interestingly, it uses WASD for rowing, but the arrow keys (or the mouse) for diving.
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