title: Javascript: different keyCodes on different browsers?
body: <p>So I've seen some forums posts about different browsers reporting differenct keyCodes, but everyone seems so avoid the "why?".</p>
  
  <p>I was trying to capture the colon (:) keyCode and realized that Firefox reports back e.keyCode 56.  While Chrome reports back 186 (I think that's what it was).</p>
  
  <p>Is there a univeral way of getting the right keyCode across all browsers?</p>
  
  <p>And why are they different if they are the same keys?</p>
  
  <p>I would be more curious as to whether there is a international way of getting the same key press.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>