Diamond Retrospective: Keyboard and Mouse Controls (LPHS-025)

Context

In November 2012, keyboard and mouse input handling in JavaScript was evolving with new HTML5 APIs, offering better control for web games.

What is this article about?

The article details keyboard and mouse controls for web games: events, key states, cursor management and interactions.

Summary

Keyboard and mouse controls

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Published in Linux Pratique Special Issue #25, November 2012.

In this issue

This article is part of issue LPHS-025. Here are the other articles by Sébastien Chazallet in this issue:

• HTML5 / CSS3: why create web games?
• Graphics: using the canvas
• Collision detection
• Using external fonts
• A tic-tac-toe game in HTML5
• How about playing cards on the table?
• Level editor
• Create a complete game with an isometric map