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thedufer on March 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Worldle- 24 Hour real time boggle HTML5 h...

You should capture the backspace key so it doesn't trigger the back button on the browser. Just stopping the event would be nice.

nosecreek on March 25, 2012 [–]

Agreed. I keep hitting backspace when I type a wrong letter or realize a word isn't actually there and suddenly my game is gone.

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