909690 - implement autocorrect, autocapitalize on textarea and input[type=text]

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[David Woldrich]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

I have a text area <textarea autofocus="autofocus" autocomplete="off" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off" spellcheck="false"></textarea>

Test jsfiddle is available at http://jsfiddle.net/ZNker



Actual results:

Based on my testing, I saw:

* autocomplete on/off doesn't appear to have any effect (probably okay)

* autocapitalize on/off doesn't appear to have any effect (shift always unshifted by default on first char of sentence)

* autocorrect off doesn't have an effect (I always see android suggestions bar and automatic spelling correction takes place after leaving a word)

* spellcheck doesn't seem to have an effect(?  Probably okay)

* autofocus DOES work (sweet!)



Expected results:

I would like to see autocapitalize work such that "on" toggles shift on by default for the first character in a sentence, and "off" disables any automatic toggleage of shift (the current behavior).  Make autocapitalize "on" or "off" by default if not specified on the tag.

I would like to see that autocorrect "off" disables the suggestion bar so that I get to reclaim that screen realestate.  Additionally, when autocorrect="off", I would like to see the keydown, keypress, keyup events fire immediately on each virtual keyboard press.  (I am using textarea for capturing game input, and I need the key events as the user presses keys)

This page contains apple's documentation for their implementation of these attributes:  https://developer.apple.com/library/IOS/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/DesigningForms/DesigningForms.html

Here is the w3's documentation on textarea (features autocomplete rather than autocorrect and autocapitalize):  http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-textarea-element

I would prefer Firefox simply implement what iOS has implemented to keep my code simple and browser neutral.

Thanks!  Firefox for Android is my go-to browser on android as of today!

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This is several different bugs some of which we already support and already have bugs filed for. Please see the list at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=344614&maxdepth=2&hide_resolved=0