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

Tue Sep 7 20:36:07 PDT 2010

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

--- Comment #15 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2010-09-07 20:36:06 PST ---
> name of the user must contain only Katakana

Thank you for the example!

How does one input Katakana without using an IM, if they have a U.S. keyboard? That's of course possible with Kotoeri IM, but only if input methods are not disabled.

> providing suitable input mode by default

Is ime-mode capable of providing Russian keyboard layout by default, for fields that are expected to be in Russian?

><input type="tel"> is very useful, but it's not a substitute of ime-mode property because ime-mode not only for inputting numbers.

I think that it also serves as an example of why ime-mode would be harmful. Although pages may want to disable input methods for telephone numbers, a better answer to this is the opposite - a browser would provide a custom input method, e.g. one that lets the user look up phone numbers in address book, or at least format them on the fly.

At this point, I think that this discussion should really go to WHATWG mailing list. I'm almost certain that we don't want to provide an explict way to play with OS input method mechanisms, but there may be other ways to solve the problems that need solving.

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