I fear that this is treading into territory where the software is trying to be too smart. Most users will type in one language. Many users will type in two languages. Few users will type in more than two languages. A simpler design is simply to notice that the user seems to be multilingual and offer to expand spell check to the additional language(s). I'm concerned that frequent on-the-fly switches will result in incorrect flagging of misspelled words and will irritate users.
-Brian On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Paul Wicks <pwick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another thing to consider is that something sort of like this is already > supported by the OS X spellchecker through the "Multilingual" language > setting. There is currently no way to switch to Multilingual in Chromium on > OS X, but it wouldn't be that hard to enable that and it really is something > that should be enabled if we want to support the native spelling correction > panel on OS X (something which I have about 2/3's done), since the spelling > panel shows Multilingual as a language option even if the context menu > doesn't. I've done a little bit of experimenting and Multilingual seems to > work pretty well in Chromium if you can enable it. One thing that might be a > problem is that as far as I can tell, the Multilingual setting just checks > all dictionaries for a word, so there could be problems there since a > misspelling in the language being used might not be marked if it is a word > in another language. > > I don't think I can say whether chromium is willing to accept > "Multilingual" as the solution for this on OS X. If it is, then what you > propose needs to be done in such a way that it doesn't touch the way OS X > does this. If this is the solution for all platforms, OS X included, then we > need to figure out a way around the spelling panel problem (no matter what, > the spelling panel provided by NSSpellChecker will show Multilingual as an > option). > > Whatever is decided, this definitely looks good for the other platforms. If > this does go forward, I could probably help out, if you need a hand. > > -Paul Wicks > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM, sidchat <sidc...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> >> A new feature to add to the SpellChecker would be its ability to adapt >> to the user's language of choice when typing in a text box. A design >> doc can be found at: >> >> >> http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/advancedspellchecker >> >> It will be great if you could go over it and provide suggestions/ >> improvements, before I move ahead and start implementing this feature >> as an experiment. >> >> -Sid >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
