Re: proposal: add input/keyboard locale to text and keyboard events [ISSUE-119]

On 12/13/2010 04:44 PM, Jacob Rossi wrote:
>> > 1. What about handwriting and voice? Both should be highly
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>> > language-dependent, so conceptually there should be no problem with
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>> > assigning to these events an input locale. Are they covered by keyboard
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>> > and/or composition events?
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>> >
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>> > 2. An application may not need the power of working with keyboard and/or
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>> > composition events, but much prefer the simplicity of text events.
> For such
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>> > an application, the feature would be killed (although I admit that
> this is
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>> > stronger language than warranted).
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>> >
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>> > Aharon
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> Agreed, conceptually it’s not blocked from being defined for those input
> methods. And so, per discussion in the telecon on Wed, it’ll be put on
> KeyboardEvent, CompositionEvent, and TextEvent. However, it will be
> spec’d in such a way that either “” or the correct inputLocale will be
> considered passing implementations for this property since UAs may not
> be able to define it accurately for all input methods.

I think you mean null, not "" ;)


-Olli


  And this way, it
> enables the spec to be forward compatible should it ever become possible
> for UAs to define it for more input methods not covered by Keyboard and
> Composition events.
>
> -Jacob
>

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