2010/10/5 Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:18 PM, James Su <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Though this property is useful in some situation, it's very confusing >> regarding to its real purpose. If I understand correctly, this property is >> mostly used for restricting the input character set of an input box. >> > > Not quite. This property is used to assist users typing in the correct IME > mode. For example, when a CJK user types in names, he/she wants to type in > characters as supposed to Latin alphabets so the user needs to active IME > manually. But websites can assist him/her by enabling IME automatically in > such an input element. > The ime-mode property is also very problematic for this purpose: 1. Activating/deactivating the IME is a very special concept only available on Windows, and may not suitable for other platforms. 2. "disabled" makes no sense for this purpose. 3. IMO, it's more like a hint instead of a mandatory restriction. The user should have right to override it.
So for this purpose, I still think having an explicit attribute to hint the desired character set of an input element is better than ime-mode solution. So that the UA can decide the proper action for it. > > - Ryosuke > >
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