Mobile Soft Keyboard API

[absurdprofit]

Recently I've been delving into PWAs and building responsive, mobile first websites. My issue is that when it comes to keyboard input for soft keyboard on mobile it seems the web has no good way of doing basic things. For example programmatically dismissing the keyboard. Or more simple things like adding event listeners for keyboard open and keyboard close. I propose a Keyboard API/Soft Keyboard API to do just that and give PWA developers more flexibility when it comes to soft keyboard inputs. I think the react native keyboard API gives a good baseline for what I'm going for.

[Yay295]

Why should a web page have control over my keyboard?

[absurdprofit]

Why should a web page have control over my keyboard?

For a better user experience. I do admit there are security issues that would have to be tackled. But the gains from having a soft keyboard interface are self explanatory. One use case could be custom layout behaviour when the keyboard is shown. Also we could have an interface to query the width and height of the keyboard to this end. If we are really serious about this "PWA revolution" handling the soft keyboard in a user friendly way should be a priority as the keyboard behaviour is usually one of the telltale differences between native and web on mobile.

[annevk]

I recommend raising this with https://wicg.io/ to gather other interested parties first. https://whatwg.org/faq#adding-new-features might also be a good read.

[absurdprofit]

I recommend raising this with https://wicg.io/ to gather other interested parties first. https://whatwg.org/faq#adding-new-features might also be a good read.

Thank you