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Comment by malandrew | Hacker News Reader

probably:

    if (event.type === 'keypress') {
        event.preventDefault();
        doSomethingElse();   
    }

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I don't think the author is talking about the spacebar being disabled entirely, at least that hasn't been my experience. What I've observed is that the space bar fails to act as a complete page-down - it only moves the page by lines.

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