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Text input keyboard mode control
See also http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12885 and http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12409 and yet another CSS proposal — 'input-mode'. Mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746142
Existing kinds of keyboards
English
iOS
- Telephone number input
- Numeric input
- E-mail address input
- Text input
<img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091107-eu5sgymf9wp6ibdu72hqawthci.jpg"> <img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091107-m9y8cnuiwe7sh34dtm5u1mcrt2.jpg"> <img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091107-jqccu6wsgks8t3w4x3k22f4apr.jpg"> <img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091107-r3p2ejjwb861pwetp1tkq2ccjr.jpg">
(Images hotlinked from this StackOverflow post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/773843/iphone-uiwebview-how-to-force-a-numeric-keyboard-is-it-possible )
Android
- Text input with leading capitalisation
- Username / password input? (no capitalisation)
- Text input without capitalisation in a search context (search submission button)
- Numeric input (big 0-9 keys, +, -)
- Telephone number input (big 0-9 keys, *, #)
- URL input (keys for /, "www.", ".com")
- Email input (keys for @, '-', ".com")
<img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tlhqZnBenFU/UAXmYIbPbfI/AAAAAAAASsQ/OkUKYDIINFc/s512/Screenshot_2012-07-17-15-21-21.png"> <img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6ysWEJvC0SM/UAXmXh00VXI/AAAAAAAASsE/5ck8u77pokE/s512/Screenshot_2012-07-17-15-22-26.png"> <img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Kfw79CKG9Hk/UAXmbQW1r9I/AAAAAAAASsw/Nmqgxy4baNo/s512/Screenshot_2012-07-17-15-11-32.png"> <img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-e7wbvjJxupI/UAXmaipMmTI/AAAAAAAASso/TkJt6aF2j8w/s512/Screenshot_2012-07-17-15-13-44.png"> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Dta3wPbGuos/UAXmZ3b60yI/AAAAAAAASsg/DMIlzBtRPUI/s512/Screenshot_2012-07-17-15-15-01.png"> <img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--tbavGIBX30/UAXmZMrQFTI/AAAAAAAASsY/LPuXhDp-VG0/s512/Screenshot_2012-07-17-15-16-47.png"> <img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--lhwXP8Qt5s/UAXmXK0oUVI/AAAAAAAASsA/ozve-EtDonE/s512/Screenshot_2012-07-17-15-23-40.png">
Existing APIs
XForms
XForms uses a model of modifiers ("startUpper", "predictOff", "digits", etc) and script block names ("simplifiedHanzi", "tagalog", "canadianAboriginal", etc).