Proposal: Input Method Editor API (was: proposal: add input/keyboard locale to text and keyboard events [ISSUE-119])

Hi, Charles-

Charles Pritchard wrote (on 12/2/10 3:40 PM):
>   This didn't receive much discussion:
> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-November/028976.html
>
> It's a proposal for a set of IME API features.
>
> I think it's worth more attention than it received.
>
> Again, in relation to locale and IME: having locale available means that
> a getSpellingRanges(localeCode) could
> be added to the DOM specs; making the identification of spelling
> mistakes much easier, in contentEditable
> and other elements.

Was this proposed anywhere on a W3C list?  I think I heard some of my 
colleagues talking about it, but I'm not sure it's the same proposal.

Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, SVG, WebApps, and Web Events WGs

Received on Wednesday, 8 December 2010 05:43:10 UTC