Autocomplete doesn't work in latest Safari version

[leolorenzoluis]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Bug

Bug Report

1. Go to https://teradata.github.io/covalent/#/components/chips
2. Start typing where it says autocomplete input is supported
3. Autocomplete is not showing, it just adds chips

What is the expected behavior?

Show autocomplete

Which version of Angular and Material, and which browser and OS does this issue affect?

Whatever the demo uses, latest safari version and macOS

Did this work in previous versions of Angular / Material?
No idea.

[emoralesb05]

Which version specifically of safari does this happen? We dont seem to be able to replicate it.

[kyleledbetter]

I'm seeing it in Safari 10.0, the autocomplete dropdown doesn't work:

Native HTML5 input list isn't supported by Safari... I'm debating what we want to invest since angular-material2 is building this angular/components#117

[leolorenzoluis]

@emoralesb05 10.0.1

@kyleledbetter Do you mean, you're just going to wrap TeraData components [Autocomplete] with Material 2? I guess my question is, does TeraData uses Material 2 as much as possible and have custom components that are not yet available in Material 2?

[emoralesb05]

true, md-autocomplete is coming so its better to just replace ours with that one inside td-chips.

That way, it will follow the material spec correctly.

[kyleledbetter]

@leolorenzoluis the goal of Covalent is to build on top of angular-material2 and add to it, but in a few cases like this we needed a component before they had it so if their version meets all needs we'll retire ours, or if we need extra features we'll wrap it as you suggest

[leolorenzoluis]

@kyleledbetter That's awesome, I am in the stage of evaluating Teradata to be used as a UI component as Material 2 is lagging behind from 1. How is the support for UI components? Is this free or there will be enterprise grade support in the future?

[kyleledbetter]

No plans for enterprise support or commericalism. This is a traditional open source developed and community supported project that's free and licensed under MIT like everything it's built on

[leolorenzoluis]

@kyleledbetter Just curious, you have more domain knowledge than me, but given that Material 1 has at least complete and stable API/components. Why doesn't Teradata just scrap existing Material 1 and just come up of a simple API such as for Autocomplete?

[kyleledbetter]

It's a conplete rewrite for angular2 and the google team that wrote angular-material1 is the same team writing angular-material2 so essentially they're doing what you suggest

[leolorenzoluis]

Hmm, then given Teradata is just building on top of Material 2, why won't Teradata just branch off Material 2 rather than having a separate repo? More exposure for people who contribute in Material 2 it self and less hassle marketing this UI component? All they have to do is branch from it, and more over you get the benefit of likely merging whatever API design you use now that are currently not available in M2?

[kyleledbetter]

Not sure what you mean by just branch off Material 2 rather than having a separate repo < we include angular-material2 as a dependency just like any other node repo, just as we include angular2 itself. We don't want to replace any of those things or be responsible for maintaining that part of the code base. We want to build on TOP of all their hard work and add all the things missing to make a full-featured application.

Let's keep this issue focused on Autocomplete in Safari and head to our Gitter chat if you'd like to have philosophical debates about our architecture decisions :) https://gitter.im/Teradata/covalent