184824 - [RFE] Smart keyboard layout switching in forms

Status: NEW

(Core :: Internationalization, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Ivan Sagalaev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021210

Keyboard layout may be automatically switched in form controls with specified
'lang' attribute. Of course only if proper layout is available in OS.

The good: I suppose this is very logical handling of 'lang' attribute for form
fields.
The bad: It may break existing user expirience: most users do not expect layout
to be suddenly switched. 

Anyway this may become a very nice touch of gloss

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Seems reasonable to me, but there are pitfalls in implementation. For example,
some users have more than one keyboard associated with a particularly language
(e.g. QWERTY and Dvorak).

Comment 2

[Ivan Sagalaev]

In this case Mozilla may remember the last kayboard used for input in particular
language. And for the first usage it may pick the first keyboard from the list.

Also I suppose that this behavior must be done on per-profile basis since
different keyboard layouts very likely may be set up for different people using
same machine.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months, so the assignee is being reset.