[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 21279] Support ime-mode (CSS property)

Tue Sep 7 10:16:06 PDT 2010

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21279

--- Comment #13 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2010-09-07 10:16:06 PST ---
> because IE and FF3 support this property

Are you aware of any Web sites that are misbehaving due to our lack of support for ime-mode?

> e.g. ASCII only or non-ASCII only text

You are saying that this is a common issue in Japan. Could you please provide some examples? It doesn't seem i18n-friendly to provide a way to special case ASCII, and only ASCII. In fact, I can't think of many examples where text should be ASCII-only. Even when typing code in some programming language, there can be non-ASCII string literals, at least.

> For example, input method is automatically enabled when the user should input the address, and is
> disabled automatically when the user should input the phone number.

If the actual use case is switching to a numeric input mode in mobile devices, then it doesn't seem like we should be making any changes on desktop. And why forcefully disable Russian keyboard? It's perfectly good for phone numbers.

In HTML5, there is <input type=tel>, and a mobile browser should be able to recognize that, and set input mode accordingly if needed.

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