kittsville/chomskey

Dynamic Keyboard Layout Editor

chomskey's Issues

Add global JS error handling

Currently Chomskey will silently die if something goes wrong. For most people that'll mean some/all functionality disappearing without warning.

To resolve this: add handling of JS errors to the appropriate JS module (Chomskey) so that the user can be informed something has gone wrong.

I would initially use alert() then transition to a styled pop-up when the relevant scripts and styles are weeded out of the edit-key functionality so other things can use it.

Add mention of Weston Ruter's IPA Chart

In a "You may also be interested in" section.

The chart:
http://westonruter.github.io/ipa-chart/keyboard/

Add Smiley/Emoticon Keyboard

This app would be great for accessing all those hard-to-find emoticons to annoy 15 year old prescriptivists with superiority complexes.

This issue proposes the addition of a 2nd built-in keyboard layout, the smiley layout. It would replace characters not typically useful in smiley creation with more useful characters such as ಠ, ಥ or ◔.

As this is a frivolous issue I wouldn't consider it high priority compared to issues such as #13, #7 or #6.

Add key mouse-over text

Allow the displaying of helpful information about the key's behaviour when hovered over with the mouse. This would be particularly useful for complicated keyboards like the UCL IPA layout.

As this will modify the layout format a change in version will be needed.

Add ability to create new layouts

The UI currently only allows the uploading/downloadin of layouts. Meaning creating a new one requires uploading a blank template.

This is connected very much so to #5 as the creation/editing pop-ups for layouts will be very similar.

Allow Ctrl behaviour to override layout

The Ctrl key is oft used for keyboard commands and Chomskey currently doesn't support Ctrl based layout modification (only Shift and Alt Gr). Chomskey however still prevents the key's default behaviour if the key being pressed (e.g. 'a') has a mapping. This is annoying.

Fix: Add check to Chomskey object to force defaulting if Ctrl has been pressed

Incorrect IPA symbol for dark l

The UCL IPA layout incorrectly uses ɬ for key 53 (aka 5 or %). It should be ɫ (dark l).

Add handling of differing layout versions

Chomskey will need to be able to perform sanitisation checks relevant to the version of Chomskey an uploaded layout was intended for. Chomskey must also be able to (if necessary) upgrade that layout to the current version of Chomskey.

Given only two people currently know about Chomskey this issue can be held off by simply rejecting all layouts not designed for the current version.

Fix Alt Graph Mappings not being applied

Fix text not being added at caret position

Text is currently added at the end of the textarea, rather than where the caret (blinking vertical line) is. This makes it harder to use Chomskey for typing large blocks of text and impossible to correctly type combining characters (given #7 is still ongoing).

Add more Zardoz references

Create/add Logo

Chomskey needs a stylish Zardoz style logo to display on the app so that site previews look better and also for general aesthetic value.

Plus #4 is a pretty important issue, of which this would contribute.

Add Character Count

Add a small, non-intrusive character count below the text area.

This is limited by Chomskey's poor handling of combining characters. After #7 has been implemented there should be relevant regex to implement a character count similar to this one.

Jquery being added via http not https

Jquery won't load if page requested via https not http.

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://kittsville.github.io/Chomskey/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure script 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
core.js:8 Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined

Add reading/saving of current layout to URL

The app URL should include the current layout's slug. When the site is visted the slug should be read and, if the layout exists, that layout should be switched to.

Some fancy stuff using history push state could be used but the simplest way would just do the above. Any implementation that did use push state should try to keep Chomskey gracefully deprecating and disabling that functionality on init if not supported.

While this would be useful, there are (currently) much more important issues to be solved.

Add Layout Meta Editing

There's currently no way, within the UI, of editing a layout's name, slug or short description. An edit key style pop-up would be the easiest way of adding this functionality.

This will probably involve adding a new JS object to specifically handle pop-up behaviour, as to keep the JS DRY.

There's also some styles which should be pulled out of the edit key pop-up and added to the pop-up class instead.

Fix handling of combining characters

Combining characters are currently added at the end of the textarea, meaning the next character typed is then combined with the combining character. Add a check so that typing a combining character combines it with the last character typed or, if there is no previous character, fails to type the combining character.

Improve meta tags

Add Open Graph tags and check how site is parsed to ensure proper indexing.