Scott Blomquist

I’ve noticed an ever-increasing trend on my favorite laptop that sometimes it just doesn’t feel like hearing every keypress. It’ll often leave some random letter out of a word if I’m typing at full speed.

Today, I finally spotted that it only happens in my web browser, and furthermore, I noticed that it only happens on web sites that have onkeypress events. It seems that the event queueing mechanism doesn’t hear all keypresses if the onkeypress event takes too long. Web developers, please don’t make onkeypress so slow that my keys get eaten.