[css3-ui] ime-mode concerns

• From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
• Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 14:21:48 -0700
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The ime-mode property seems problematic. 
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#input-method-editor

Why should a web page get to disable my Pinyin character window? The example given was to disallow extended set characters in a form element, but it seems this would be better solved by either:

1) simple form validation in the app, or 
2) regex or charset acceptance patterns in the host language input. 

Allowing CSS to disable IMEs seems like overkill for this problem.

James

Received on Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:22:21 UTC