[whatwg] inputmode feedback

[Takayoshi Kochi (河内 隆仁)]

+Yoichi Osato, who is working on implementing inputmode spec for Blink and
Chromium.


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> >>
> >> Using semantic names might give us the warm fuzzies, but is there really
> >> any semantic use we will get out of these that we wouldn't by using
> >> "lowercase", "titlecase" or "autocapitalized"?
> >
> > The reason I used the more "semantic" names is that the names like
> > "lowercase", "titlecase" or "autocapitalized" aren't accurate. For
> > example, you can hit shift in "lowercase" mode to get uppercase. You can
> > have a "titlecase" mode that doesn't capitalise every word (e.g. it
> > recognises the "van" in "van Kesteren"). A value that is explicitly for
> > names can use a different dictionary than one that is just for
> capitalised
> > text (e.g. derived from the user's contact list). And so on.
> >
> >
> >> I take it verbatim and name would disable any spelling corrections,
> >> and name would also titlecase? But the difference between text and
> >> prose seems really hard to understand.
> >
> > In the spec, "verbatim" does not correction at all, e.g. passwords;
> > "latin" is for human-to-computer communications, e.g. free-form text
> > search fields, and would do spelling correction and automatically
> > inserting spaces between words in swiping keyboards, etc; and
> > "latin-prose" is intended for human-to-human communications, with
> > aggressive automatic typing correction, e.g. text prediction and
> automatic
> > capitalisation at the start of sentences.
>
> I think a really important question is if this is understandable to
> authors. There's also a big risk that if these modes aren't noticeably
> different in initial implementations, it will be hard to add such
> differences later.
>
> / Jonas
>



-- 
Takayoshi Kochi