- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:53:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: whatwg@whatwg.org
One of the features that I'm looking at specifying (again) is a mechanism for authors to help user agents pick the most appropriate input mode. For some cases this is easy; for example, user agents can know that an <input type=number> field should have a numeric keyboard. However, in some other cases it's not at all obvious; e.g. you want a numeric keyboard for credit card fields, which are type=text. To do this properly, I need to have a list of all the possible keyboards we should expose. Two things would be helpful to that end: - Screenshots of keyboards - Details of APIs in existing platforms that control input modes. I've added some screenshots of keyboards from Android to this wiki page: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Text_input_keyboard_mode_control If anyone can help out by adding more screenshots from other platforms, especially for non-English input languages, or by providing links to documentation for input mode APIs on operating systems that support them that would be great. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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