I was testing this on mobile safari and noticed there does not seem to be window or document level events for key listeners, for example in the demos, you must focus the input first. Almost all other browsers seems to work fine on document alone with no inputs focused.

Do you know why this is?

for example, cmd+k won't ever show the k in your demo 1 page

EDIT: this is in Chrome 26

Throws an error at DOMEventsLevel3.shim.js:958:

TypeError: Attempting to change writable attribute of unconfigurable property.

Hi, this doesn't seem to work in Chrome (version 27.0.1453.116, Windows 7).

When entering the demo code into the Javascript console:

document.addEventListener("keydown", function(e){ console.log(e.type, e.key, e.char, e.shiftKey) })
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keydown", { key: "1", char: "!", shiftKey: true }))

... the console starts outputting

keydown undefined undefined false

... as if the key and char properties are not populated.

Is this perhaps related to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16735 ?