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We are aware of this and are working on an on screen keyboard, kind of like this: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/integrating-virtual-keyboards-in-google

by olegp 16y ago

We are aware of this and are working on an on screen keyboard, kind of like this: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/integrating-virtual-keyboards-in-google.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/integrating-virtual-k... To answer the question below: we would need a custom layout to ensure all the curly brackets and other common JS chars are one tap away

Flow 16y ago
Why not use the buit-in keyboard-UI in the iPad?
- mileszs 16y ago
  It looks like the UI uses an editable div. I believe that editable divs do not trigger the built in keyboard on an iPhone, and there's no way to force it to do so.
  - Flow 16y ago
    Alright, but shouldn't the solution be to allow the user to use either Google's keyboard or the built-in(by using textarea)? The built-in one has a dictionary and some autocompletion, which could be good or annoying... :)
    - olegp 16y ago
      Most likely annoying if you're writing code.
      - Flow 16y ago
        Perhaps, maybe on par with seeing some home-made keyboard on screen. IMHO.
      - bergie 16y ago
        Yes, a custom keyboard for this kind of app should include the necessary buttons for JavaScript. Curly braces, etc.
  - dnewcome 16y ago
    I have played with making an absolutely positioned single-char text input box in my custom editor (https://github.com/dnewcome/richie https://github.com/dnewcome/richie). The idea is that it forces the built-in keyboard to show but the input is caught and inserted into the DOM. I don't use contenteditable since it doesn't work on most mobile devices. My hacks are really rough but I think the technique could be polished eventually.
- gokhan 16y ago
  Don't work on iOS. In my web app, I display a plain textarea for iPhone and iPad, but it's not an IDE. Why doesn't @contenteditable work on the iPhone? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723592/why-doesnt-contenteditable-work-on-the-iphone http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723592/why-doesnt-content... Is contentEditable not supported by iPad? http://www.quora.com/Is-contentEditable-not-supported-by-iPad http://www.quora.com/Is-contentEditable-not-supported-by-iPa...
  - bergie 16y ago
    AFAIK it supports contentEditable, but just doesn't show the keyboard for those elements. So theoretically formatting commands and such work.
tchvil 16y ago
The Google docs team stopped to use contentEditable and developed instead a new "editing surface and layout engine" in Javascript. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-different-about-new-google-docs.html http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-different-about... I don't have an iPad(yet), but I tried a very basic page you can get at http://beebole.com/brol/contentEditable.html http://beebole.com/brol/contentEditable.html Tap the blue screen and start to type. On an android phone it works ok.

by olegp 16y ago

Flow 16y ago

Why not use the buit-in keyboard-UI in the iPad?

mileszs 16y ago
It looks like the UI uses an editable div. I believe that editable divs do not trigger the built in keyboard on an iPhone, and there's no way to force it to do so.
- Flow 16y ago
  Alright, but shouldn't the solution be to allow the user to use either Google's keyboard or the built-in(by using textarea)? The built-in one has a dictionary and some autocompletion, which could be good or annoying... :)
  - olegp 16y ago
    Most likely annoying if you're writing code.
    - Flow 16y ago
      Perhaps, maybe on par with seeing some home-made keyboard on screen. IMHO.
    - bergie 16y ago
      Yes, a custom keyboard for this kind of app should include the necessary buttons for JavaScript. Curly braces, etc.
- dnewcome 16y ago
  I have played with making an absolutely positioned single-char text input box in my custom editor (https://github.com/dnewcome/richie https://github.com/dnewcome/richie). The idea is that it forces the built-in keyboard to show but the input is caught and inserted into the DOM. I don't use contenteditable since it doesn't work on most mobile devices. My hacks are really rough but I think the technique could be polished eventually.
gokhan 16y ago
Don't work on iOS. In my web app, I display a plain textarea for iPhone and iPad, but it's not an IDE. Why doesn't @contenteditable work on the iPhone? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723592/why-doesnt-contenteditable-work-on-the-iphone http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723592/why-doesnt-content... Is contentEditable not supported by iPad? http://www.quora.com/Is-contentEditable-not-supported-by-iPad http://www.quora.com/Is-contentEditable-not-supported-by-iPa...
- bergie 16y ago
  AFAIK it supports contentEditable, but just doesn't show the keyboard for those elements. So theoretically formatting commands and such work.

tchvil 16y ago

The Google docs team stopped to use contentEditable and developed instead a new "editing surface and layout engine" in Javascript. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-different-about-new-google-docs.html http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/whats-different-about... I don't have an iPad(yet), but I tried a very basic page you can get at http://beebole.com/brol/contentEditable.html http://beebole.com/brol/contentEditable.html Tap the blue screen and start to type. On an android phone it works ok.