On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Jörg Knobloch <jo...@jorgk.com> wrote:
> So please voice your objections to the proposed solution, if any ;-) As someone mentioned already, lots of websites are actually communication tools (eg. webmail, chat, social networks), and there's no way the website can know in advance in which language I'll want to type (I write half the time in French and half the time in English). My personal experience is that touching a context menu to switch the dictionary all the time is too much effort, so I gave up and am now used to completely ignoring the red underlines. The solution I would like to see implemented (and I'm willing to help) is automatic detection of the language. We already ship language detection code (http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/translation/LanguageDetector.jsm) and this could be reused for spell checking. Of course we can't guess the language when the user starts typing (so we'll still need the mechanisms you discussed), but as soon as we have a couple words, the detection is pretty reliable. This would of course need a way to pref it off for people who speak a single language and would be annoyed if every once in a while the dictionary is switched automatically; but I think it would make the spell checker significantly more usable for multi-language users. Florian -- Florian Quèze _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
