Re: Stickers in contenteditable?

In addition, to stickers, there could be any rich content, really. We could have something like "richContentInput" with some metadata, containing what the content is, or something similar.


@Chrome folks: do you happen to have contacts in Gmail, Google+ or any other Google editors that have some kind of messaging capability that we could inquire about this and other editing related questions?


- Grisha


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Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 10:57:07 AM
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Subject: Stickers in contenteditable?

Hey,
today we spoke about potentially adding a way to add stickers within contenteditable as a new input Type. Basically, the OS/User agent would provide an image which then could be used across apps. The OS would decide whether it will allow users to add their own stickers and how that process would be, or whether it only would allow standard OS-provided stickers.

One of the advantage of providing stickers from the user agent rather than having stickers implemented in each web app would be that it would allow users to use the same sticker across web apps.

Grisha explained his idea about it, and I must say it appears to be useful for at least some use cases. It may be obvious that stickers are not suitable for all types of formal writing, but for a lot of what people write in a more social setting, they may be useful. For example, last year I was contacted by a group of young media people in one Central American country. They wondered if there was a way that they could spread an emoji in celebration of a national day in that country which they hoped to hoped to spread through the national media of for people to use. Unfortunately I had to tell them that emojis were simply unicode characters, and that none of the provided alternatives seemed suitable for their purpose. Had one had this sticker system in place, that may have been an alternative.

Similar images may be useful for this purpose in other geographic areas (check for example how people in the UK try to use the remembrance day poppy in social media posts [1]) or related to specific subcultures that won't all be coverable with emojis simply because there are so many of them. It may be down to a family or single person who decides to spread the same image across several social media networks or forum posts.

But the question remains: Is this something other browser vendors and the developers of web apps making use of contenteditable would find useful? I am trying to reach out to various JS editor developers and it would be good if people here could give feedback as well and if possible contact the JS projects that could potentially use this within their organizations.

As I see it, this would require adding an input type to beforeinput/input that specifies that the user would like to insert a sticker image together with the image data. "Stickers" would then also be among the features that could be specified to be turned off for a specific contenteditable element.

[1] http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/add-remembrance-poppy-2016-facebook-6751550

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