There’s an all-day battery, too, meaning it can last for multiple lectures, and a full-size keyboard makes it easy to work or take notes. Speaking of search, Chrome OS is built for finding things quickly and getting things done. There’s even the Play Store (opens in new tab), so you can add more apps to the device with a quick search. If you spend any time in Docs, Sheets, or even just Gmail, you’ll find a lot to like here. That may not sound like a lot, but that’s the beauty of Chromebooks – they make computing accessible for all.Ĭhrome OS is Google’s own operating system, and will be instantly familiar to anyone that’s used Google Drive or any of the company’s other applications. For that impressively low price, you get a 14-inch, full-HD display, along with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. You would typically use the environment variables as in the example below. The default value of each keyboard inset is 0px if a fallback value is not provided. The width and height insets are calculated from the other insets for developer ergonomics. The virtual keyboard insets are six environment variables that define a rectangle by its top, right, bottom, and left insets from the edge of the viewport. They are modeled similar to the inset CSS property, that is, corresponding to the top, right, bottom, and/or left properties. The VirtualKeyboard API exposes a set of CSS environment variables that provide information about the virtual keyboard's appearance. log ( 'Virtual keyboard geometry changed:', x, y, width, height ) To detect if the VirtualKeyboard API is supported in the current browser, use the following snippet: if ( 'virtualKeyboard' in navigator ) = event. The VirtualKeyboard API is available from Chromium 94 on desktop and mobile. A virtual keyboard policy that determines if the virtual keyboard should be shown.A set of CSS environment variables that provide information about the virtual keyboard's appearance.
The VirtualKeyboard interface on the navigator object for programmatic access to the virtual keyboard from JavaScript.Situations like this is where the VirtualKeyboard API comes in. The image below shows how the VirtualKeyboard API could be used to optimize the layout of the document dynamically to compensate for the virtual keyboard's presence. Examples include multi-screen mobile devices where the traditional approach would result in "wasted" screen real estate if the virtual keyboard is displayed on just one screen segment, but where the available viewport is shrunk on both screens nonetheless. Traditionally, browsers have dealt with this challenge on their own, but more complex applications may require more control over the browser's behavior. For example, an input field the user is about to type into might be obscured by the virtual keyboard, so the browser has to scroll it into view. This flexibility comes at the price that the browser's layout engine has to be informed of the virtual keyboard's presence and potentially needs to adjust the layout of the document to compensate. Unlike a physical keyboard that is always present and always the same, a virtual keyboard appears and disappears, dependent on the user's actions, to which it can also adapt dynamically, for example, based on the inputmode attribute. Devices like tablets or cellphones typically have a virtual keyboard for typing text.