[whatwg] Textarea Wishlist

Matthew Thomas mpt at myrealbox.com
Mon Aug 9 04:29:23 PDT 2004


On 9 Aug, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Kai Hendry wrote:
> ...
> I might not be the typical use case, however I think it is appropriate
> for editors to embed themselves in web forms to give the user their
> editing environment, be it emacs or notepad.
>
> Downside is that people would have to choose their editor. And the
> default for some might suck.

Worse, some keyboard equivalents would do wildly different things 
depending whether focus was in a text field or not. Especially since 
some pages auto-focus a text field and some do not.

-- 
Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/




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