818504 - [Keyboard] Consider turning off suggestions for input type=text by default

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[Ben Francis [:benfrancis]]

In bug 797155 we turned on suggestions by default, including input type=text

I think this makes sense for textareas, but there are lots of places where this looks odd in Gaia for type=text

Examples include:
* Browser where you get awesomescreen suggestions + keyboard suggestions
* Everything.me search which also provides its own suggestions
* The text box at the top of the SMS app
* The contacts search and new contact name fields for which suggestions are unlikely to be helpful.
* The to: field when composing an email (though this should probably be type email)

I intend to turn off suggestions using x-inputmode="verbatim" in the browser in bug 816481. Is this the right approach and we should file bugs for all the other places it doesn't seem appropriate, or should we turn it off by default for input type=text?

Comment 1

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Ben, is this bug still valid? I believe we adopt the later approach (using inputmode=verbatim).

Comment 2

[Ben Francis [:benfrancis]]

x-inputmode=verbatim works fine for the browser/Rocketbar, and we're using type=search now.

Comment 3

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

I think we can close this issue for now.
Please feel free to re-open it if any other concerns.

Thank you.