Re: [whatwg] Input and spell check/keyboard settings

> On 18 Jun 2015, at 13:07, Jonny Rein Eriksen <jonnyr@opera.com> wrote:
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> On 18.06.2015 12:01, Florian Rivoal wrote:
>> Would it make sense to add an 'auto' value to the lang attribute, explicitly instructing the UA to try and guess what language is being entered? Remembering what was used last time being a legitimate way to guess, but looking at what keyboard you're using, or at the content of what you're typing being others. UAs that don't know how to guess would be no worse off than today, but for those that do, you'd get the benefits that Jonny was talking about, plus any language dependent css being applied correctly...
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>> The mechanics of it aren't hard to polifyll, so maybe leaving it up to author provided js is good enough, but a js implementation would have access to less information to base its guess on. For instance, if you're using a typical mobile on-screen keyboard, it wouldn't know which language the keyboard is in, which provides a big clue as to what you're typing.
> This is another part of the problem. There is currently no way to set which keyboard you would like to use on iOS/Android if I understand correctly. We could maybe get a standardized API which could solve this. Having support in desktop browsers first for handling spell check better would probably help in achieving this though.

If a text input field has lang=foo, and your system has a (virtual) keyboard for language foo, I would expect that keyboard to be the one presented to you. Same thing with IMEs (e.g. you have a US keyboard and a Japanese IME installed on your desktop computer, when focusing a text input field with lang=ja, I would expect the IME to be turned on).

Not sure if any spec change is needed for that.


 - Florian

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