Hi, Thanks a lot of discussion about this matter. A bunch of Ryosuke-san's replies is exactly what I'd like to say. I still believe that the property can make web page authors provide appropriate input mode by default and isn't harmful as long as the authors use the property in a gentle manner.
> Not sure. He wrote "For instance, name of the user must contain only > Katakana", which seems to be a restriction. I have also been surprised by > that - it sounded like Katakana can be typed even with IME disabled on > Windows. Sorry for making a misleading, but Ryosuke-san's understanding is correct. I intended to say that the input must contain Katakana so it would be helpful if IME could be automatically activated to input Katakana, which is appropriate input mode in this case. I didn't intent to force the user to input Katakana by this property (and actually it will be impossible because we can paste any non-Katakana characters into the form). > Now, ime-mode is not such a grande feature that's likely to change how people > use the Web :-). I just took some extreme examples to explain why adding > features isn't harmless, even if they are initially expected to only be used > for good only. Here is another use-case. Some modern CJK web pages provide a way to input Chinese or Japanese text without OS-provided IMEs. You can see an example at http://www.baidu.com/. Click the text next to the search button and select 拼音 or appropriate one, then input text in the search box so you will get the candidate window in a similar way that OS-provided IMEs. When developers want to provide such feature, they might want to control system-level IMEs and the ime-mode property could provide the solution. I think this feature likely to change how people use the Web. Regards, _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev