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Having read the comments in patch proposed by Alexander Rødseth, I must note it is a bit unfair to both sides:
- Web applications should have the ability to receive any key, including modified and even function keys, since only then the long-term dream of web apps replacing desktop ones can be achieved;
- Browser should have the ability to receive any key, including unmodified, regular ones, since there exist elaborate plugins (like Pentadactyl or Vimperator) which allow user to control browser using these simple keys (<d> to close tab, <H> to go back etc.) - it's just faster when the browser is not used to input text.
So I think it's better to reserve some keystrokes for browser and leave the rest for web applications. If this is not possible (which would be sad) then we could only resort to implementing a switch key.