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Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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1345 points philosopher1234 | 4 comments | 02 Feb 23 16:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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wazoox ◴[02 Feb 23 18:07 UTC] No.34630597[source]▶
Unfortunately like 99% of such web games is mostly unusable if you don't have a QWERTY keyboard...
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1. planede ◴[02 Feb 23 18:54 UTC] No.34631371[source]▶
Why don't web games use KeyboardEvent.code for this? That would mostly resolve the issue, assuming browsers are compliant.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...

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2. constantly ◴[02 Feb 23 19:25 UTC] No.34631783[source]▶
This sounds like a lot of work to me to address a problem that only impacts 0.1% of players, and KeyboardEvent.code looks pretty obscure.
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3. planede ◴[02 Feb 23 19:49 UTC] No.34632041[source]▶
> 0.1% of players

There are entire countries with different standard keyboard layout than QWERTY, I'm pretty sure that 0.1% is inaccurate.

I also remember that some desktop games handled alternative layouts just fine by default, without reconfiguring key bindings manually. I was only ever affected by QWERTZ, so the impact was limited.

Apparently both desktop and web has the suitable API to handle this well, yet web games don't seem to care.

4. wazoox ◴[03 Feb 23 15:36 UTC] No.34642426[source]▶
Most French-speaking (AZERTY) and German-speaking (QWERTZ) countries, that's like at least 500 million people...