[beeboobaa]

> Ideally developers could let the user know their caps lock key is activated.

That would be up to the User Agent (the browser), not the website.

[ninkendo]

I dream of a parallel universe where browsers took the lead in crafting innovative UI’s for standard web forms, with things like password prompts behaving intelligently, dropdowns supporting advanced autocomplete, excellent date pickers, caps lock reminders on password dialogs, etc etc.

Websites could have been simple to make with basic markup, leaving UX niceties to the browser vendors.

The world we live in is about as far from that as you get, with the stock UI for <input> elements being about par for 1992 UI toolkits, if even that.

[makeitdouble]

The mobile platforms were a chance to reboot that part, and have browser do a lot more UI wise with custom handling of the different data types (dates, passwords, phone numbers, ranges etc.)

It just didn't pan out to tablets and desktop computers. But it might not be too late ?

[pooper]

In particular, the input select multiple is atrocious with default styling.

[Retr0id]

Well, they're not, which means web developers are picking up the slack.

[beeboobaa]

Stay your lane, and if you really feel the itch go contribute to firefox or something

[pimlottc]

How would the browser know when/how to display the capslock status? It doesn't know what any given web site is doing wrt to keyboard input. Firefox adds a capslock indicator on the text cursor but not all pages use standard input fields. They might use custom UI elements, or no visual elements at all. Some sites may not even care about capslock (e.g. an arcade game).

[beeboobaa]

`<input type='password'`, just like TFA was talking about?

[stephenr]

> That would be up to the User Agent (the browser), not the website.

Relevant: Safari has done this for ages.