Arrow Keys Won't Work on Many Websites

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Arrow Keys Won't Work on Many Websites

On many game sites, the arrow keys won't work at all, so I'm not able to play. The hardware is fine, they work fine in email and Word, just not on the game sites. Do I have a setting wrong? I've checked everything (I think....)

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Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 5, 2006 10:36 PM

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Tom Graves

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Jun 6, 2006 2:49 AM in response to MikeyBoy000

Welcome to Apple's user-to-user discussion forums.

What are the arrow keys not doing? They should scroll the window when you see scroll bars in Safari. They will not scroll if the cursor is in a text box.

Can you give us a site that is an example of where you are not seeing the behavior you expect?

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MikeyBoy000 Author

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Jun 6, 2006 7:25 PM in response to Tom Graves

Here are a couple that don't work:

www.freeonlinegames.com/play/3350.html
http://www.ezone.com/games/jazzy/gamecode.htm
http://awesomehouseparty.com/house/

Some other sites do, but these don't.

Thanks again for your help!

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Tom Graves

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Jun 6, 2006 8:16 PM in response to MikeyBoy000

The arrow keys are working for me in the game on http://www.ezone.com/games/jazzy/gamecode.htm. The arrow keys work slugishly for me in the game I tried on www.freeonlinegames.com/play/3350.html. The third sight seems to require registration so I did not try it.

Freeonline games was more responsive for me using Firefox, you might want to give this browser a try and see how it behaves.

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MikeyBoy000 Author

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Jun 6, 2006 9:53 PM in response to Tom Graves

Thanks for checking those out. For me, they definitely don't work at all. Is there some kind of setting I don't know about? Or should I contact the website? Any ideas?

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