1734620 - Provide WebExtension API for detecting and changing spell check language

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: Extensions API, enhancement)

Description

[Tim Wißmann]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.71 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

On 08/16/2021 we got our addon "SmartCompose" (https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/smartcompose/) reviewed by John Bieling. He mentioned, that both of our experiments should be added to Thunderbird core.

Expected results:

I would like to enhance the compose API by offering the ability to detecting and making changes on the composer dictionary/spell check language.
To detect changes on the spell check language, a MutationObserver on the "lang" attribute is set, which is fired whenever the compose document lang atrribute changes.
To set or get the dictionary language, the lang attribute is set or retrieved accordingly.

Proposed permission requirements: compose

Comment 1

[Tim Wißmann]

This issue is connected to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1734618

Comment 2

[Tim Wißmann]

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Comment 3

[Tim Wißmann]

(In reply to Tim Wißmann from comment #2)

Created attachment 9244787 [details]
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Comment 4

[John Bieling (:TbSync)]

Attachment: Bug 1734620 - Add support for ComposeDictionaries to the compose API. r=mkmelin

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/0a94e6dfc09e
Add support for ComposeDictionaries to the compose API. r=mkmelin