[whatwg] keyboard behaviour inside of editable area

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Alexander Surkov wrote:
> 
> The suggestion is to treat control element as special character, i.e. 
> when you move through the text by arrow keys and control element is met 
> then control element should be focused and its selection should be 
> changed appropriately. When control has the focus then keyboard 
> behaviour is defined by control preferences with once exception. If 
> particular navigation key isn't processed by control or doesn't have any 
> defined action then editor rules are applied.

This seems reasonable (though I'd prefer to study it in a usability lab 
before making a stronger statement), but it also seems like an 
implementation detail -- there's nothing that really requires that the 
user agent even support arrow keys, let alone that they work in a 
particular way.

Cheers,
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