Character input doesn't work in mobile Chrome

[qdacsvx]

Character input doesn't work in mobile Chrome

[curiousdannii]

So apparently Chrome has never properly supported keypress: scottjehl/Device-Bugs/issues/20, Chromium bug
I wouldn't have noticed until recently though because on my old phone I used the Android browser rather than Chrome.

And it turns out that the keypress event is actually deprecated now?!

[qdacsvx]

The same bug occurs in mobile Firefox.

[cibersheep]

Same behavior on Ubuntu Touch (default browser is Oxide, a fork of Chromium(

[WakeRealityDev]

With a USB, Bluetooth or other "hard keyboard" on Android 7, the 'char input' menu in degen.z5 works fine for me on Android 7's Chrome browser.

Maybe an alternate soft keyboard works around the issue? It could be a lack of input focus on where the keystrokes are going (there is no blinking cursor anywhere, see also issue #27). Maybe an explicit JavaScript call to put focus somewhere could be added? Maybe a transparent html input or textarea tag ?

[curiousdannii]

Character input is working in my new AsyncGlk library, which you can test here (note many other things are not implemented yet):

https://curiousdannii.github.io/parchment-testing/?story=https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Savoir-Faire.zblorb

One limitation is that there is no way I can see of supporting function keys with a mobile virtual keyboard. It would be possible to add our own extra menu for function keys though.