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Oct 21.2007

Hi,

I’m trying to write a script that captures the amount of time between keystrokes, starting from the time someone clicks or tabs into a textbox and ending when someone either hits tab or clicks a submit button. Ideally the time between keystrokes would be outputtable to a text file for further manipulation. Has anyone seen anything done like this before?

Bill
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@mrhooOct 21.2007 — It would be easy in firefox- every event has a timestamp that can be read and logged. For IE you can capture a new Date() and log its timestamp.

Either one is a pretty expensive process, though I've used timed events in tests and slideshows- except for the outputting part, which sounds a little creepy. Is this for the NSA?
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@cube3designauthorOct 21.2007 — LoL. No, I want to have a script running where it auto-formats the user's text on-the-fly based on how long it takes them to type their words. Formatting meaning change a word to bold if they take longer than the average time between keystrokes compared to the rest of the document.

Bill

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