963886 - implement spell checker in Firefox for Android

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Will Pittenger]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131219175107

Steps to reproduce:

Currently, Firefox for Android doesn't have a spell checker.  Since a spell checker is part of the Android API (buggy, but there), Google could readily add a spell checker to Chrome if they haven't already.  I understand there's quite abit of work to do.  So this bug might need to become a tracking bug.


Actual results:

Firefox failed to detect my spelling errors..


Expected results:

Firefox should have marked my spelling errors.

Comment 1

[Siddharth Shah]

I am interested to work on this bug. Can you help me with it?

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

We don't know that we want this. Even if we do it is likely to be complicated.

Text areas and input fields are c++ code and would need to communicate with Java efficiently to highlight the misspelled words using the Android API. The other option would be to use the Gecko spell checking code. Either way this is a complex bug and needs some specifications for design and function of the feature. It is also unclear if we should spellcheck the address bar. The specifications don't exist yet thus it is not ready for code to be developed.

Siddharth Shah you should look at this list of mentored bugs http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?mobileandroid=1

Barbra would you create an Aha card for this feature or decide we don't want this?

Comment 3

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

Added Aha card to funnel for discussion: https://mozilla.aha.io/features/FENN-495

Comment 4

[Siddharth Shah]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #2)
> We don't know that we want this. Even if we do it is likely to be
> complicated.
> 
> Text areas and input fields are c++ code and would need to communicate with
> Java efficiently to highlight the misspelled words using the Android API.
> The other option would be to use the Gecko spell checking code. Either way
> this is a complex bug and needs some specifications for design and function
> of the feature. It is also unclear if we should spellcheck the address bar.
> The specifications don't exist yet thus it is not ready for code to be
> developed.
> 
> Siddharth Shah you should look at this list of mentored bugs
> http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?mobileandroid=1
> 
> Barbra would you create an Aha card for this feature or decide we don't want
> this?

Thank you Kevin Brosnan I will look for some other bugs.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

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