On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Florian Quèze <flor...@queze.net> wrote:
> 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. +1000 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
