keyboard-api

Mozilla said they were happy to do that five years ago if we wrote the API. We started work on it here [1] but lost interest because there have always been more urgent things to do (and for me, the ctrl+comma escape hatch that gets you back to Tridactyl from anywhere in the browser is good enough). I think honestly most of the work in getting such an API merged would be political since most of the people who approved it are no longer at Mozilla. If anyone wants to pick it up I would be delighted to help. [1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/keyboard-api

About five years ago we had agreement in principle with Mozilla to extend the web extension API to accept keypresses from anywhere, provided that someone did the work to write that API. We started it [1] but lost interest because we think Tridactyl works mostly fine without it (press ctrl+, anywhere to get back to Tridactyl) and I have always found more urgent things to improve. I'd be happy to help anyone who wanted to pick it up, but a lot of the political work of persuading Mozilla that such an API would be useful would need to be restarted since most of the people we persuaded in the past have now left Mozilla. [1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/keyboard-api/