Open Bug 448666 Opened 16 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Add text prediction utilizing custom dictionary

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: susurrus, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: 3.0a2pre (2008070903)

With the advent of smartphones, people have become accustomed to predictive text input as commonly demonstrated through T9 or the iPhone system. These normally involve a changing dictionary that learns from what a user writes and some algorithm for either a) correcting a users input or b) predicting the user's input, or some combination of both.

This makes a lot of sense in small form factor devices, but I think it also makes sense in an environment where a lot of typing is common. It has already been implemented in OpenOffice Writer as of version 2.0 I believe, which also gives us a reference implementation.

Reproducible: Always

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Flags: wanted-thunderbird3?
OS: Windows Vista → All
Hardware: PC → All
Removing wanted flag...forgot TB is almost in beta stages.
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3?
This sounds nice, voting for it, changing to NEW.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Severity: normal → S3
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