On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Simon Fraser wrote:
On Oct 4, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Kenichi Ishibashi wrote:
I'd like to implement CSS ime-mode property, which activates/deactivates input methods, to WebKit. Here is the MDC's document about this property:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/ime-mode
This property is not a part of any public standard, but both of IE and Firefox support this property. Like Safari and Chrome, they are widely used browsers so the ime-mode property is frequently used when one wants to control input methods. So, if WebKit supports this property, it would improve compatibility of web pages and make web developers easier to implement their pages and services.
I recently posted a patch to support the ime-mode property for mac (See https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21279), but alexey asked me to discuss at WHATWG mailing list whether we really should implement this property. Before going to WATWG, I'd like to ask opinions from webkit-dev mailing list.
CSS properties should be discussed on www-style, not what-wg.
If it helps with WinIE compatibility, I have no real objection to adding the property. I do find it unfortunate that Microsoft implemented this feature as a CSS property though. I think it should have been done as an extension to HTML instead. Turning off CSS shouldn't break the author's IME intent. dave (hyatt@apple.com)