Handling preventDefault

[mdgriffith]

I have a project which uses spacebar and backspace as controls, both of which have builtin defaults in the browser that I need to bypass.

Being able to selectively preventDefault on a key-by-key basis would be ideal or in some cases to preventDefault on a conditional basis within elm. e.g. Only preventDefault for a key if the model has a certain state. However at the moment my app doesn't require the latter.

[akbiggs]

This would be really useful for game development in Elm, since most in-browser games will use keys with default behaviours such as the arrow keys and the spacebar.

[Emilios1995]

@mdgriffith In the meantime you can use Chrome Canary, which no longer have the default behaviour for backspace. This is expected to be shipped in future versions of Chrome.