[whatwg] For Japanese language users. Web Forms should have a way to active/deactive for IME

Masayuki Nakano wrote:
> Hi, I'm a member of Mozilla Japan and hacker of Mozilla.
> 
> I think that Web Forms should have a way to active or deactive for IME.
> The function is same as WinIE's ime-mode property.
> 
> It is different for inputmode attribute.
> Because inputmode attribute is the filter of key input.
> But my proposal function is not it.

Why could this not be handled by the inputmode attribute?
That attribute seems to give enough information to the web browser
for it to be able to enable/disable appropriate IMEs.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-inputmode
http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/sliceE.html

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:19:44 UTC