HI I have been a dedicated iphone user but recently moved to Android. I love my phone but the issue that I have is that I can't view news like the reader mode that is available in Safari which also word wraps the text as I zoom in on any news website. Does anyone know any solution? I have tried Opera and it is the only valid solution I have found but has another issue which I am telling now.
The second feature that I miss the most is the ability to select words while reading any article and click Define to get the meaning of the word. Now on Android though I found word lookup but this doesn't work with opera. So I can't use both these features together which is a very bad experience for me. I have done enough search but can't find a browser that can word wrap the text as I zoom in and also has the ability to define words. I hope anyone of the experience users have answer to my query.
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I like the predicitive text on the QWERTY keyboard, the eris feature where alternatives are shown for typed words, presenting an opportunity to choose the correct word. I enjoy using this when doing IMs in Google Talk, for example. This feature seems to be disabled in the default web browser on the eris, in 1.5 before, now in 2.1. The predictive text does not work in the search bar and it does not work in data entry fields in forms displayed by the browser, for example
Can anyone please tell me how one would enable this predictive text input in all apps on the phone? including the search bar for webkit and data entry on web forms?
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There is probably a good technical reason for this, like somehow the input method is not known to the web browser application. Perhaps the browser itself is not consulting a system table for availability of this input method at run time. Maybe it only happens at install time? Is there some manual change that could be made to enable this?
I think they disabled it in browser because a lot of websites have names that the predictive text obviously doesnt know and when you type fast and hit space quickly it auto selects words which Id imagine could be quite a pain in the ass online.
WalkingTaco said:
I think they disabled it in browser because a lot of websites have names that the predictive text obviously doesnt know and when you type fast and hit space quickly it auto selects words which Id imagine could be quite a pain in the ass online.
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Thanks, You are right. I agree as to why they disabled it, but i think the way the feature works, it would really be more benefit to me than a hindrance.
1) Adding a mispelled word or one not in the dictionary is painless, editing this dictionary in the settings is easy too.
2) For activities like retyping stuff (like my email address) in data entry fields in the browser over & over; this would be much better with the ability to spell-check and remember words, especially when accuracy is critical.
I want predictive text in the browser. Why not a voice input option (like in the voice search applet) as well?
Can someone help at least give me the choice, I think these two input methods work very well.
Solved - 2.1 enhanced HTC keyboard, with voice too! - link
This pretty much gives you voice and predictive text wherever you want it without sacrificing anything:
nimbu.amorvi.com/2010/04/add-full-voice-to-text-to-htc-desire/
Followed the "HTC Sense Style Keyboard Instructions"
Instructions were for HTC desire but this worked fine on stock OTA 2.1 Eris, not rooted.
HTC_IME_lo_25.apk is the one that installed okay for me. I was half-asleep at the time and I think the other version did not install right, but you might want to try again.
Enjoy!
Ive tried using Dolphin as well ad the stock browser, and in both cases when i attempt to type into a website's rich text box... no keyboard is displayed on my screen.
Is anyone aware of a workaround to this problem? I wanted this device mainly for work,but if i can ttype into these fields, ot sort of defeats the purpose.
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Ive tried using Dolphin as well ad the stock browser, and in both cases when i attempt to type into a website's rich text box... no keyboard is displayed on my screen.
Is anyone aware of a workaround to this problem? I wanted this device mainly for work,but if i can ttype into these fields, ot sort of defeats the purpose.
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Could you give us an example of such a website? I don't know what types of sites these would be. I'd like to see it to recreate the problem if possible.
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I don't have my nook with me, so i'm not sure if this one will allow typing or not:
http://www.vectorlight.net/silverlight/demos/richtextbox.aspx
(The one i have problems with is for a work website behind a login)
This is the same problem apparently from the color:
http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reader/Can-t-enter-text-into-certain-websites/td-p/1102836
Playstation forums ar ean example of being unable to type in a field.
At least there, you have the option to switch to html mode. My work website does not
Hello everyone,
I use an Office-365-Account on my Samsung Galaxy S2 via Exchange/ActiveSync. The account also comprises a SharePoint-Website.
If I open the original E-Mail-App on my smartphone and click on the bottom left button (the one for the properties), it opens a quite long list with much more possibilities in comparison to a "normal" E-Mail-Account.
There is an option called "Dokumente", I hope that the equivalent is named "Documents". If I click on it, there appears a new textbox where I shall enter the address of my Windows Sharepoint Service.
On every Windows-PC, I can access my data stored on the Sharepoint-Server with <xxx>.sharepoint.com/TeamSite/Documents/, but on Android this link doesn't work, no error message, it just returns back to the list of mails.
I've taken two screenshots, unfortunately in German. Can anybody tell me, how I can connect to my Sharepoint-Folder with this onboard-Feature? I've already contacted Samsung, but they weren't able to help me.
Best regards!
Try another browser, or use desktop UI string.
why shall I use another browser? Did you really understand my question? This feature is implemented in the E-Mail-App, not in the browser, the URL was just a hint.
no idea? I can't believe, that there is an Android-Feature and nobody can give support for this, neither Samsung, nor forums...
Some crappy web sites like creditfoncier.fr declares the following tag in the heading of a page:
Code:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">
It seems to be a fix for an ios bug. But on my android phone I can only see a part of the page. I found a solution that suits to my needs. If I type the following text in the address bar, the page appears exactly the same as on a desktop browser:
Code:
javascript:var metas = document.getElementsByTagName('meta');for (i=0; i<metas.length; i++) {if (metas[i].name == "viewport") {metas[i].setAttribute("content","");}}
I added it to my bookmarks to fix crappy sites on demand.
But I am looking for a better solution. Is there a browser option or plugin to always ignore declared viewport? Or a web service to disable viewport interpretation?
Thank you
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
THANK YOU! I know you're asking for a better way, but you just provided me with the only way I have found so far. I have an iPhone 6 Plus (1920x1080) and was forced into crappy mobile layouts of "Responsive" pages when my Mac displays the proper layout and only has 1440x900! I'm just hoping more people can find your post, and even better yet someone makes a browser to ignore the viewport, or better still the whole world stops the evil practice of responsive web design. Anyway on iOS 8.1 this DOES work in Safari, but ONLY as a bookmark. If you paste this into the URL Safari says JavaScript can't be used this way.
You're welcome
You're welcome!
One of the goals of my message was to share a solution I found, as well as keep it safe for myself. The best way would actually be an option in browser, or a browser add-on. I hope someone will develop one.
Glad it helped you.
Hi there, first time poster. I was wondering if someone could answer a few questions for me as it pertains to HTML5 and bringing up a Keyboard on Android (any version). I am a website developer and I have recently gotten into making my web applications mobile friendly, but I'm running into some snags when trying to get a certain keyboard to show up on Android / iOS and I'm wondering why it's not a bigger issue than I've seen so far.
Right now, if I add an <input> onto my page and add type="number", Android will pull up a keyboard that has numbers, etc. My problem is, the field I'm using isn't a "real floating point number", which all major browsers (except IE11) disallow. If I have an input set up to take a credit card number, I cannot allow the user to add dashes to make it easier to read while using type="number". However, I'd rather have the number keypad pop up by default as it really is all numbers, just not a calculatable (is that a word?) number.
I was wondering how difficult it would be for Android to add in something so when a field is clicked into, it would look for a specific vendor prefix to load a soft keyboard of the web developer's choosing? For instance:
Code:
<input type="text" data-soft-keyboard="number">
or
Code:
<input type="text" data-soft-keyboard="email">
which will give the device very clear and explicit instructions on which type of keyboard to display.
Sorry if this seems way out in left field, but I haven't found a decent solution to this issue. I went to Chrome forums to discuss and people said Chrome is 100% working off of the HTML5 spec. My personal opinion is that the HTML5 spec is wrong and why the hell are browsers doing validation against data in textboxes when I didn't specifically ask for it. However, I'm not really sure which direction to go at this point.
Any suggestions or opinions on the matter would be very nice, thank you