RE: contentEditable=minimal

>>> 5. There should be no native toolbars in cE=minimal (and other native UI
>>> interfering) like the one Safari opens on iOS if you have non-empty
>>> selection.
>>I haven't yet checked exactly what's in the iOS toolbar, but generally
>>I don't think we should dictate UI. Clearly on mobile we don't want to
>>forbid browsers to bring up the virutal keyboard, which is a form of
>>"native UI". And the spellcheck UI that safari displays also doesn't
>>seem bad if spellchecking is enabled.
>>
>>And UI for cut/copy/past that android renders seems good to render
>>*somewhere* when there's selection.
>
>On iOS the contextual toolbar not only contains copy/cut options which are of course ok, but it also contains bold, italic and lists buttons. That's unacceptable and I assume this kind of native UI will not be implemented for cE=minimal.

The goal of Command Event is to make this a non-issue. If sites respond to bold/italic/list commands they can handle this UI just fine. Are you concerned that a site may not use bold so the button would have no effect?

Received on Monday, 26 May 2014 23:48:32 UTC