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#7255 closed feature (plugin)
Opened October 20, 2010 06:39AM UTC
Closed April 17, 2011 12:44AM UTC
High-level API for text input, with support for IMEs
| Reported by: | costan@gmail.com | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | event | Version: | 1.4.3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
I'm writing a syntax highlighting tool using the contentEditable=true feature. I was able to get it working for Western languages reasonably quickly, but I'm having a hard time making it work well when users have IME software running.
WebKit implements the DOM3 "textInput" event, which eventually does the job. Firefox has a proprietary "text" event that I haven't figured out yet. Apparently Internet Explorer has a propertyChange event that can also do the trick.
I would be really grateful (and I think I speak for a 3rd of the world's population) if the awesome jQuery developers took a look at this hard problem. Having an abstraction layer in jQuery would make it easier to build more inclusive applications.
Thank you very much!
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Change History (2)
Changed October 20, 2010 06:35PM UTC by comment:1
| component: | unfiled → event |
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| milestone: | 1.5 |
| priority: | undecided → low |
| status: | new → open |
Changed April 17, 2011 12:44AM UTC by comment:2
| resolution: | → plugin |
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| status: | open → closed |
I think we're going to have to defer to a plugin author here - hopefully implementing something with special events.