w3c / w3c/editing

iOS Safari: Support meta content="interactive-widget=resizes-content"

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Description

Editor developers want to be able to place a toolbar (likely at the bottom of the page, near the user's thumb). However, when the VirtualKeyboard is shown the toolbar is covered.

There's a solution for this, supported on Android already:

<meta name="viewport" content="interactive-widget=resizes-content" />

Safari doesn't support it yet. So I wanted to ask if supporting this setting is planned, and if yes, when is it expected to land?

Currently for svedit.dev we have a "correction mechansim" to keep the toolbar visible, but it leads to flickering. interactive-widget=resizes-content would be a much better solution.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ddcef564-b2ab-4aac-9e92-90202d391aa7

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No repository file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the viewport and interactive-widget specification material, then review how the issue's Android support comparison applies to iOS Safari. The issue does not define a patch, acceptance test, or implementation scope.

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Assessment

Tech stack
html, ios
Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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