Bill H wrote:
> On Sep 4, 10:39 pm, Steven Bethard <steven.beth....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All that said, I will take your suggestion and look into XUL when I
>> have some time.
>
> Not to cause waves, but you could do that in flash, if all the person
> is doing is reading text and then clicking on 1 of 3 buttons, a small
> flash file could catch the keypresses and either send the information
> on to your server, or access a javascript routine to do something on
> the webpage.
If the solution were Flash in a common Web browser, J(ava)Script/ECMAScript
in a common Web browser was a solution as well, and a much better one since
no further plugin was required. The problem is not that it cannot be done
at all with JS/ES, but the undesired side-effects this will have in the
usual environment.
PointedEars
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