- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:25:22 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Randy <randy@prowebdesign.nl> wrote: >> > On top of that, the vast majority of these readers just translate it >> > back to text. It's just another input "device", as barcodes are fixed >> > (and sometimes standardized) fonts. >> >> True, so this is perhaps closer to an IME hint, as has been suggested >> for a couple of other input types. > > Do you mean something like inputmode=barcode? Can you elaborate on how > that would work? It's an intriguing idea, but I'm not sure I follow quite > how to specify it. Yes, something like that. In terms of the table in the spec: Keyword: barcode State: Barcode Fallback State: Default Description: Text input in the user's locale, with keys to activate the system's built-in barcode reader to retrieve a value instead. ~TJ
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