Today the Web Applications Working Group published the following two documents as W3C Proposed Recommendations:

• UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values: This specification defines the values for the KeyboardEvent.code attribute, which is defined as part of the UI Events Specification [UIEvents]. The code value contains information about the key event that can be used to identify the physical key being pressed by the user.
• UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values: This specification defines the key attribute values that must be used for KeyboardEvent's key attribute, which is defined as part of the UI Events Specification [UIEvents].