Il 15/07/16 19.19, Nicholas Alexander ha scritto:
Hi Richard,
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 5:50 AM, Richard Z <r...@linux-m68k.org
<mailto:r...@linux-m68k.org>> wrote:
Hi,
in a multilingual enviroment several of the builtin search
methods on Android are difficult to use:
* voice input (icon in URL bar) has no quick & easy
way to switch languages on a case by case basis:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1284871
This seems like an edge case, especially since you can get the
language toggle through the soft-keyboard. It would be nice if the
"current" language was remembered once set through the soft-keyboard,
making the voice input icon in the URL bar truly a shortcut.
* when typing in the URL bar only the favicons of available
search engines are displayed. If the same SE is available
in multiple languages they will typically have the same
icon and thus be indistinguishable.
This is tricky. Do search engines actually respect language codes?
Or do they internally sniff your Accept-Language and redirect? If the
former, then we'd need to differentiate icons in some way. I'm sure
Jeff Beatty and others in the l10n team have considered this. If the
latter, then perhaps we need to coalesce all icons for a single
engine, since they will all do the same thing anyway.
Only a few of them use Accept-Language or the website's language
settings to direct users to the right results. Two examples are Bing and
Google. I even have a hard time thinking of a third example out of the
defaults we currently ship across locales.
Most of them (Wikipedia, eBay, even Yahoo) use domains to differentiate
languages and results, either different TLD (ebay.es), or different
third level (es.yahoo.com).
You have the same problem on desktop, with the new one-click search UI,
but there you can at least use the tooltip to understand if you're
picking the right one.
Not completely sure how that could be fixed.
Francesco
Wondering - could I improve any of this by some configuration
or writing an extension?
I am not aware of easily modified configuration here. This UI is all
implemented in Java, so it's not modifiable with an extension -- sorry.
Nick
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