Bug 198671 - Need to way to feature-detect presence of hardware keyboard (e.g. for gaming)
Summary: Need to way to feature-detect presence of hardware keyboard (e.g. for gaming)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKit Misc. (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2019-06-07 11:42 PDT by Simon Fraser (smfr)
Modified: 2019-06-07 11:52 PDT (History)
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Description Simon Fraser (smfr) 2019-06-07 11:42:37 PDT 
Web pages like games need to be able to customize their user input based for touch or keyboard, so need to be able to feature-detect the presence of a hardware keyboard. This currently isn't possible.
Comment 1 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2019-06-07 11:42:53 PDT 
https://twitter.com/firt/status/1136652889655521280
Comment 2 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2019-06-07 11:44:11 PDT 
<rdar://problem/51529802>