The problem:
When writing messages on Facebook, in web-mail, in discussion forums and
so on, we often end up switching languages for the spell-checker in the
desktop browser and on phones we switch which keyboard we use. Typically
I will write in English in messages to my English friends and Norwegian
to my Norwegian friends. But since spell-check and keyboard are always
global settings in browsers we end up having to switch keyboard and
spell-checker whenever we switch between who we are writing messages to.
Of course this is only a problem if you communicate in multiple languages.
A possible solution:
If we had support for setting a standardized context attribute on the
input element, the browser could keep a small database with configured
settings per context. The idea being that this context attribute would
be connected to each entity you were communicating with. In general I
would have a default spell-checker/keyboard. Since I set it to English
last time I talked to an English friend on Facebook and if Facebook
supported this context ID the browser would remember this and
auto-switch to English next time I started writing a message to him.
We would need to define an attribute for the input field so that web
sites could supply such a context ID. Looking at Textarea there are
related settings: Id, Spell check and input mode are the most obvious,
but nothing I can find that would solve this issue, IE. a context ID
that could be set per user, or group of users you are writing to. Or did
I miss something?
My question then: Is this interesting for this group?
Jonny Rein Eriksen
Opera Software
