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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.