Last modified: 2012-10-15 22:57:44 UTC
Steps to repro: * open http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:VisualEditorSandbox on Android stock browser * click into the editing area somewhere * type "doesnt" Expected: * spell checker built in to system's IME offers to replace "doesn't" Actual: * no spell suggestions are visible
Tested on Nexus 1, Android 2.3.6.
This makes sense because the edit surface was implemented from scratch in JS, and the browser's IME isn't in the loop at all.
Yeah, may take some tweaking to make this work. More important for non-Latin languages...
(One possibility is to make use of a small <input> that's positioned in place, and update it word-by-word or something. I think we're already sorta using an invisible one sometimes for cut-n-paste and such?)
Based on the appearance in iOS where Every Word Gets Capitalized the behavior is resetting on each word; it's just not quite cooperating with other things. :)
Mobile devices have not been considered very much yet - we are aware that it sort of kinda works on iOS and Android browsers, but things like selection and input will need special handling in these browsers.
No longer valid; new version of VE uses in-built ContentEditable explicitly to get this to work.
Mass-moving old VisualEditor tickets to the VE product. Search for this message to mass-delete bugmail.
