Does Fennec include a spellchecker?

[Robert]

Does Fennec currently include a spellchecker?

If so, how does one use/find it?

Thanks

[Ben Combee]

On 10/11/2009 12:45 AM, Robert wrote:
>
> Does Fennec currently include a spellchecker?
>
> If so, how does one use/find it?

No, we don't have spell check functionality turned on in Fennec. This
is because the dictionary would add a lot of space to the download and
we don't have a context menu UI that would let you act on misspelled
words while typing.

[Dave Royal]

Ben Combee wrote:

Is there any progress on a context menu?
(I'm thinking particularly of 'open in new tab' - bug 465284)

Dave
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[Ben Combee]

On 10/12/2009 12:07 PM, Dave Royal wrote:
> Is there any progress on a context menu?
> (I'm thinking particularly of 'open in new tab' - bug 465284)

I don't think it's happening for 1.0 -- we're in feature freeze on that
version, and the methods that have been proposed for displaying a
context menu haven't felt right to our UI team.

[Robert Kaiser]

Ben Combee wrote:
> I don't think it's happening for 1.0 -- we're in feature freeze on that
> version, and the methods that have been proposed for displaying a
> context menu haven't felt right to our UI team.

Hrm, what's wrong with simple click-and-hold as has been used by MacOs
for ages and also e.g. on MicroB?

Robert Kaiser

[Ben Combee]

On 10/13/2009 10:28 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Hrm, what's wrong with simple click-and-hold as has been used by MacOs
> for ages and also e.g. on MicroB?

The mobile engineers and UI designers here have debated that action a
lot. For 1.0, the consensus here was to avoid the question. :(

I personally like it, but I also agree that it can be difficult to
discover and that putting context-specific actions into a menu like that
can be problematic. However, outside of using device-specific shift
keys to modify clicks, we've not yet developed a better solution.

A number of mobile UI systems try to side-step this by having selection
of an object change into a detail view where the various options are
visible. That might be doable, but I'd hate to have to always pick
something from a menu after clicking on a link just to follow it.

[Dave Royal]

Ben Combee wrote:
>
> The mobile engineers and UI designers here have debated that action a
> lot. For 1.0, the consensus here was to avoid the question. :(
>

Well, while they debate it, can we have a key to do 'open in new tab'?
For me, Fennec is unusable without it. I suggest the Fn key - I can use
my thumb.

Strictly as an temporary measure, you understand ;-)

[Ben Combee]

On 10/15/2009 10:29 AM, Dave Royal wrote:
> Ben Combee wrote:
>>
>> The mobile engineers and UI designers here have debated that action a
>> lot. For 1.0, the consensus here was to avoid the question. :(
>>
> Well, while they debate it, can we have a key to do 'open in new tab'?
> For me, Fennec is unusable without it. I suggest the Fn key - I can use
> my thumb.
>
> Strictly as an temporary measure, you understand ;-)
>
> Dave

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465284; it's a much
wanted feature.

[Madhava Enros]

We want the primary mechanism for this (open in new tab) to be
something that doesn't require the keyboard, but there's no reason
that there shouldn't be a keyboard-oriented one as well.

I've commented in more detail in the bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465284
), but if we wanted to be consistent with the various flavours of
desktop Firefox we could use Ctrl-tap to be open in new tab. This way
we'd have some transferral of learning from what people do on the
desktop.

Madhava

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