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- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:51:04 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23961 Bug ID: 23961 Summary: inputmode values contain orthogonal aspects Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Hardware: PC OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec Assignee: dave.null@w3.org Reporter: ben.bucksch@beonex.com QA Contact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-admin@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org Latin and kana are orthogonal to things like "autocorrect off". Likewise, "email" belongs in type, and is already standardized and accepted cross-browser there, but inputmode has it as well - again: orthogonal. So, the current spec has 3 or more orthogonal aspects in the same field: 1. script/language (latin, kana...) 2. data type (text, numbers, email, url) 3. typing aids 3.1. completion / text prediction 3.2. correction 3.3. capitalization 3.4. spell checking They are orthogonal, because I can have completion, correction and even capitalization for names (using the user's address book) and for text (using a dictionary). They'd use different algorithms, but still the type (name, text) is a different aspect from whether I want the computer helping my type or not. That all doesn't seem well-thought out, and Mozilla thinks so, too: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org//2013-February/038914.html This whole definition of inputmode seems off, because in my usecase, it is actually "prose" text that the user enters. But the prose contains special abbreviations and terms that I need to recognize, and Firefox OS' autocorrect wrongly "corrects" these, too, rendering this form and app feature useless. So, I actually *do* want to say that it's "prose" text (inputmode="prose"), I just want to tell Firefox OS to get out of the way. An autocorrect="off" seems like a much better way to turn off one specific malfunctioning feature than saying inputmode="verbatim", which would disable all typing aids. I have nothing the autocomplete suggestions that Firefox OS shows in the row above the virtual keyboard, but inputmode="verbatim" disables these as well. This is why I think that autocorrect on/off/default should be a boolean (3-state) flag, which is independent from any other dimensions like language or data type. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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