[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 10221] [S60] no key events for text input

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http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10221





------- Comment #3 from dacarson at gmail.com  2006-08-03 10:17 PDT -------
The issue here is that there is some complex work being handled by the input
box on the platform that is changing the letters as you type, similar to a FEP. 
Mobile phone users use an input mode known at T9. It maps the characters for
each number on 9-pad to a word in the dictionary. Eg to enter the word
'monday', the user presses 6-6-6-3-2-9. Though, as you type it it does not
start to become the word monday till the letter 2. What appears to the user is
the following:
o
on
non
none
monda
monday
What would it mean to issue key events into the DOM with such a system? What
would web page authors expect? Would they expect the the letters m-o-n-d-a-y,
or would they expect what they see on the screen, o-n-n-e-a-y (ie the character
that was shown for that key press). How would inform the user that the
character for a previous key event has changed?
Keep in mind that this is only the English language, when mobile devices are
used in other countries such as China, it is even more complex.


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