1101463 - Implement similar feature like "Use web service to help resolve spelling errors" in Chrome

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement)

Description

[Nguyen Trong Tuan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141113143407




Expected results:

Use updated online dictionary services whenever available.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Is this about regular text input in text fields? Or the url bar? or something else?

Comment 2

[Nguyen Trong Tuan]

Regular text input in normal field or field in web page of search engine; not necessarily address bar or search bar.

Either by updated dictionary file online or even dedicated online service at Mozilla for spell checking.

Just a small idea.

Related - https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/106230

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Nguyen Trong Tuan from comment #2)
> Regular text input in normal field or field in web page of search engine;
> not necessarily address bar or search bar.
> 
> Either by updated dictionary file online or even dedicated online service at
> Mozilla for spell checking.

Why? We already have a builtin spell checking service and dictionary. Why do we need an online one?

Comment 4

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to :Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #3)
> (In reply to Nguyen Trong Tuan from comment #2)
> > Regular text input in normal field or field in web page of search engine;
> > not necessarily address bar or search bar.
> > 
> > Either by updated dictionary file online or even dedicated online service at
> > Mozilla for spell checking.
> 
> Why? We already have a builtin spell checking service and dictionary. Why do
> we need an online one?

I guess, Google uses this gather more information and cloud computing to improve the results. However, Mozilla probably not have the resources to do that, and this is not our mission goals.


to WONTFIX?

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I'm going to mark this as WFM because I think the builtin spell checker is good enough. If there are specific things it should be doing better, we should file and fix bugs about those.