- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:55:00 +0200
- To: Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>
- CC: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, www-svg@w3.org
On Thursday, May 23, 2002, 8:39:33 AM, Dave wrote: DP> At 17:04 22/05/2002 -0400, Doug Schepers wrote: >>I could not agree more. Considering the fantastic text-handling >>possibilities of SVG, this seems to be a much-needed addition. >> >>At the very minimum, I'd like to see Western keyboard letter, number, and >>notational characters handled, and I'd really love to see such commands keys >>as the arrows, insert, delete, and backspace thrown in as well. Dare I say >>"tab"? >> >>I'll stop short of asking for support for the play/pause/ff/stop command >>keys on fancy keyboards... DP> I've no idea what they might be, but what about the other (to me/us) DP> 'fancy' keys found, say, on Japanese keyboards, the locale specific DP> keys that they need for their use? How do we cover them? We *don't*. The DOM 2 spec tried this approach, and was criticized for it. Defining some bizarre (and wrong, too) mega-keyboard that does English and Japanese is not internationalization. In DOM 3 Events there is a distinction between text input (by whatever method) and 'other keys' like function keys, etc. So, DOM 3 covers all Unicode-included languages, already. It also covers keyboard events. It does not require everyone to have a 65,000-key keyboard and does not penalize users of input method editors (eg Chinese, Japanese, Korean) who make several keystrokes to enter one character. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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