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A Live KeyboardEvent Inspector — Settling the `event.key` vs `event.code` Question for JS Shortcuts

When you bind Ctrl+S to "save" in a web app, do you check event.key === "s" or event.code === "KeyS"? The honest answer is "I don't remember, I copy-paste from Stack Overflow." Until a Dvorak user reports the shortcut is broken — or a Japanese IME user reports it fires mid-composition. This is a liv

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