[feature] adding autocapitalize attribute to search bar

[Rififia]

Setup

• Browsers and versions: Mobile browsers supporting autocapitalize attribute
• Foreground version: 2.3.0

Issue

Some wikis (e.g. dictionnaries like the wiktionnary) have $wgCapitalLinks set to false and lower-case titles.
Therefore, searching articles with mobile and autocapitalization enabled may be annoying as you always need to make the first letter lower case.

That's why it would be great to add a feature that allows modifying the attribute autocapitalize on the search bar, especially to set it to off.

[Rififia]

See also https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/635286/2/includes/skins/Skin.php#b2445, they are working on a fix for the latest version of MediaWiki to make autocapitalizing disabled when $wgCapitalLinks is set to false.

[Hutchy68]

Is this still needed or should we wait until 1.35.1 is released and see if it is merged?

[Rififia]

Hi, sorry for the delay. So 1.35.1 is released and this fix has been merged but I didn't make the update, I will do it and see if it's fixed now in mw's core (but there is no reason it won't be).
So yes this issue will be useless except for old mw versions.

[Rififia]

The fix is sill not merged in an official release, but it is on the 1.36 beta. Wikimedia's wiki have this functionnality.
It may not worth implementing, except for backward compatibility I guess. As you wish, maybe not on the version for 1.35+ ?
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251664 is the phabricator's task, but it looks like it's frozen.

[Hutchy68]

Ok, I’ll take a look but it will be a few days. I’m getting slammed by work.

[Rififia]

Don't worry there is time, I still need to make a small change (I don't actually think we need to add a new parameter, just a single check of wgCapitalLinks will make it works for most case).

[Rififia]

I've updated, using a simpler code… but I failed to pass one of the test, I don't know why