[whatwg] Proposal in supporting the writing of "Arabizi"

By not moving IME's off OSes, you're asking every OS connecting to the
internet to support this feature. Netbooks for example, may just have a
native web browser on it. Would its OS then need to implement its own IME
for a few languages for their entry? Instead its web browser could just
support the input field, given they can render them.


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Mark Callow <callow_mark at hicorp.co.jp>wrote:

> Why do you feel it is necessary to sway IME's off OSes? As far as I know
> the OS ones are all freely downloadable or included in OS distributions.
> The downloadable ones are not even as hard to find as they used to be.
> They're needed for all text input fields across the system. They're
> complicated enough that I wouldn't want to have to learn different ones
> in different applications.
>
> I quite agree about the dictionaries and not just for IMEs. I have a
> ridiculous number of English dictionaries installed on my system, e.g.,
> one in Thunderbird, one in Firefox, one in MS Office, one in XMLMind,
> one in Foxit Reader plus a host of others. I also have separate copies
> of the _same_ Japanese dictionaries in Thunderbird and Firefox for use
> by the Rikaichan plug-in. However having dictionary look-up only
> available as a network service is a very dangerous way to go from the
> perspective of civil rights and liberties. It needs to be a service
> available locally perhaps with an option to go to the network.
>
> Regards
>
>    -Mark
>
>
> On 05/12/2011 07:42, Sami Eljabali wrote:
> > Thanks Mark for the clarification, and thanks all for the feedback. To
> the
> > valid point however, regarding the result of bloated web browsers storing
> > each language's dictionary, I feel more thought could be put in swaying
> > IME's off OSs, as it is limiting in availability for all. That said,
> > couldn't we have have  'dictionary look-ups' be served as a service? It
> > could follow the search services model available today, where users
> choose
> > their provider to be used by the browser itself. This would allow room
> for
> > providers to even emerge given possible incentives or others including
> > noting trends circulating via users speaking x,y, or z languages. Worst
> > case, one could look into a peer-to-peer solution, where users donate
> their
> > bandwidth/cpu for others. Your thoughts on this are appreciated.
>

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