- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:07:47 +0100
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:58:34 +0100, chris at bodar.com <chris at bodar.com> wrote: > RE; See the inputmode="" attribute in the current draft. > > I'm familiar with it from XForms but unless if totally missed a trick it > is oriented towards languages and modes (such as lowerCase) rather than > filtering/refusing certain keys - I will dig back in incase I missed > something in Xforms... That's a UI issue really. > Re: This can be easily achieved with a simple script but I wonder if > it's desirable. > > but the point of webforsm is to avoid scripts where possible (so it > works for high security peeps as well as accessibility peeps...), isn't > it? > > as for desireable - well if WEb forms is part of the WEB API initiative > and both legacy applications (unix/dos based), contemporary applications > (key code fields in installation dialogs) and future apps (my next > project!! ;-)) I suspect it is both useful and desireable (if you've > ever been a data inputter you'll know what i mean. If you are > uncomfortable with 'autotabbing' then a trimmed down version might be > making a field with readonly elements e.g. 01/02/1945 as __/__/___ > Still autotabbing is a feature I have been asked to deliver about once > ever six months for the last 10 years (and using script have done so) I > just want to make it work for my banking friends who have scripts turned > off and who are ALWAYS using legacy style apps so get frustrated when > clunk web apps don't provide the facility (especially when hitting the > right arrow on a form element doesn' jump you to the next element. Well, for dates for instance there's a native input type. So that isn't really a good use case. > My feelings is that it is both desireable and useful (and I'd like to > see improved keyboard accessibility (such as arrow keys too) but this is > probably not the place for that rant!... -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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