Re: cancelability in level 1 of input-events spec

+aelias.  Personally I really hope we can achieve interop around all this
:-)

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Johannes Wilm <mail@johanneswilm.org>
wrote:

> Hey,
> the TAG review of the input events spec asked us among other things to
> convert the long list of inputType values to a table. I have now done that
> for both levels. Now that I am done I get a clearer picture of which iof
> the inputTypes the Google people decided to not make cancelable in the
> level 1 version. They are marked as "Undefined" so that also those
> implementing level 2 are compliant with level 1. [1]
>
> I wonder though -- what made you guys decide to make exactly those not be
> cancelable? For example, inserting an ordered list can be canceled, but
> inserting a paragraph break cannot be canceled. Neither one of these should
> be happening during an IME composition, right? Or if I hit a special key
> combination to delete a word backward, that cannot be canceled. But if
> instead I select the word and hit the key combination for cut, that is
> cancelable.
>
> Is this list meant to be final or is this still work in progress? If this
> is final, then maybe it would be a good idea to write up soem explanation
> fro the philosophy that lies behind these choices. Otherwise I am sure a
> lot of JS devs will be just as confused as me about this.
>
>
> [1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/input-events/v1/index.html#h-
> interface-inputevent-attributes
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