Gaia/System/Keyboard

Status & Team

• See: B2G - Milestone 3 Plan

V1

Keyboard requirements

• Multiple keyboard support
  • Being able to cycle through different language keyboards and keyboard layouts
• Contextual sensitivity
  • adjust keyboard layout based on input field types
    • datetime (picker)
    • date (picker)
    • time (picker)
    • number
    • url
    • name
    • email
• Predictive text
  • Ability to recommend words based on substring (eg: 'wor' recommends world, word, work, etc)
  • Ability to recommend for misspelled words
  • Support for additional characters and symbols on alternate keyboard layout
• Keyboard behaviors
  • double press space for '.'
  • Auto capitalize beginning of sentences and names
• Localized
  • Adjust for currency depending on locale
    • $, €, ¥, etc

Languages supported

• US-English
• Spanish (Latinamerica)
• Portuguese (Brazil)

Design Spec

• File:Keyboard Specs.pdf
• File:Special Characters Per Keyboard Key.pdf

V2

Keyboard requirements

• Browser specific: When entering a URL in the browser address bar, the 'enter' key should be labeled as 'go'