Remove the requirement that keyboard events be sent in filtered mode. This

hurts some higher-performance game use cases, and probably won't help much
to prevent abuse.
Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/7481021

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@93641 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/ppapi/api/ppb_input_event.idl b/ppapi/api/ppb_input_event.idl
index ba4536a..6ee87a3 100644
--- a/ppapi/api/ppb_input_event.idl
+++ b/ppapi/api/ppb_input_event.idl
@@ -149,9 +149,11 @@ enum PP_InputEvent_Class {
   PP_INPUTEVENT_CLASS_MOUSE = 1 << 0,
 
   /**
-   * Requests keyboard events. Keyboard events must be requested in filtering
-   * mode via RequestFilteringInputEvents(). This is because many commands
-   * should be forwarded to the page.
+   * Requests keyboard events. Often you will want to request filtered mode
+   * (via RequestFilteringInputEvents) for keyboard events so you can pass on
+   * events (by returning false) that you don't handle. For example, if you
+   * don't request filtered mode and the user pressed "Page Down" when your
+   * instance has focus, the page won't scroll which will be a poor experience.
    *
    * A small number of tab and window management commands like Alt-F4 are never
    * sent to the page. You can not request these keyboard commands since it
@@ -202,9 +204,9 @@ interface PPB_InputEvent {
    * Request that input events corresponding to the given input events are
    * delivered to the instance.
    *
-   * You can not use this function to request keyboard events
-   * (PP_INPUTEVENT_CLASS_KEYBOARD). You must use RequestFilteringInputEvents()
-   * for this class of input.
+   * It's recommended that you use RequestFilteringInputEvents() for keyboard
+   * events instead of this function so that you don't interfere with normal
+   * browser accelerators.
    *
    * By default, no input events are delivered. Call this function with the
    * classes of events you are interested in to have them be delivered to
@@ -256,8 +258,7 @@ interface PPB_InputEvent {
    * register to receive events by calling RequestInputEvents(). In some cases,
    * however, you may wish to filter events such that they can be bubbled up
    * to the DOM. In this case, register for those classes of events using
-   * this function instead of RequestInputEvents(). Keyboard events must always
-   * be registered in filtering mode.
+   * this function instead of RequestInputEvents().
    *
    * Filtering input events requires significantly more overhead than just
    * delivering them to the instance. As such, you should only request