Hiya, The soft keyboard in 1.5 has the same behavior as the hard keyboard with respect to the enter key submitting forms, that is, it submits the form.
That's pretty reasonable for the hard keyboard as you can easily see that there are more fields to fill out, and can just tap the next field once to go there. It's also consistent with desktop web browsers where you have to hit tab to move to the next field. I think it's pretty confusing with the soft keyboard. In landscape mode you can't see anything else whilst typing, and the enter key is nice and big. This makes it VERY easy to accidentally submit a half finished form, which for forms which do server-side validation is a big problem as the validation will occur async in the background, slowly, thus if the user does press enter to dismiss the keyboard then move onto the next field their work will be wiped out when the page reloads with an error message. This is not theoretical, it happens in my app. The right way to use the android soft keyboard, apparently, is to type then press the back button. Not intuitive to me. I think the enter key for the soft keyboard should just dismiss the soft keyboard. I know it's too late to fix this in the OS now, but does anybody know of an easy way to implement this in my apps embedded WebView? thanks -mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
