Why isn't backspace being detected using jQuery keypress event?
$("#field").keypress(function(event){alert(event.which);});
The keypress event is (in its original IE form, and in Safari/Chrome) about an actual character being added to a text field. The backspace key clearly does not add a new character to the field value, so it causes no keypress event.
Firefox and Opera are a little more willy-nilly about generating typing events.
PPK (quirksmode) considers the IE and Webkit behaviors to be the sensible ones, and I pretty much agree.
