Escape key in browser kills cometd connection

[will@…]

On pressing the escape key in Firefox 2 (may be apparent in other browsers also) the comet connection to the server is lost, and it does not reconnect. The connection type used was the long polling HTTP POST.

Using javascript evt.preventDefault() when escape is pressed does not prevent this action... user must explicitly recall cometd.init() to reinitialize the connection

[guest]

If you capture the escape keydown event, and return false, this fixes the problem. This event should probably be captured in the cometd code.

[dylan]

mass move of editor issues to 1.2.

[Joscha Feth]

For the lazy ones:

dojo.connect(document, "onkeypress", function(e) {
    var key = e.keyCode || e.charCode;
    if (key == dojo.keys.ESCAPE) {
        return false;
    }
});

[bill]

The CometD library has been removed from DojoX. The CometD project now maintains its own Dojo library in AMD format as part of their project. This will be available via cpm, or may be downloaded from GitHub?. See: ​http://cometd.org/