AVIM for Firefox

Feature Comparison

A lot goes into making an IME a seamless experience. Here’s how the AVIM extension and its competitors stack up:

Feature Vietnamese IME extensions
AVIM 20080728.237 Mudim 0.8.125 CHIM 1.0 Vietnamese Portable 1.0
Download size 40.9 kB 30.1 kB 9.7 kB 11.6 kB
Size after installation 91.1 kB 67.2 kB 10.2 kB 32.7 kB
Screen area 0–592 px 768 px 4,246 px ?
Interface languages en, es, fr, vi, zh en en en
Price Free Free Free Free
License MIT GPL 2 GPL 2 Permissive
Architecture Stateless Input buffer Input buffer Stateless
Applications
Mozilla Firefox 3.0–3.1 1.0–3.0.x 1.0–2.0 1.5–2.0.0.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.x No No No
Mozilla Sunbird 1.0pre No No No
Mozilla Fennec 1.0 No No No
Mozilla Prism 0.9–1.0.0.x No No No
SeaMonkey 2.0 No No No
Flock 2.0.x 1.0–2.0.x No No
Songbird 0.3–0.7.0 No No No
Netscape No No No No
Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit 5.0.x No No No
Spicebird 0.7 No No No
Instantbird 0.1.2–0.1.x No No No
SamePlace 0.9.x No No No
BlueGriffon 0.1 No No No
Pencil 1.x No No No
ChatZilla 0.9.69+ No No No
Input methods
Telex Yes Yes Yes Yes
VNI Yes Yes Yes Yes
VIQR (+ variant) Yes Yes Yes Yes
VIQR (* variant) Yes No No Yes
Combinations Telex, VNI, VIQR+, VIQR* Telex, VNI No Telex, VNI
Input method features
Configurable combination input method Yes No No combinations No
Diacritics shifted backwards (Viet^.) Việt Việt Viet^. Việt
Diacritics duplicated backwards (truong+`) trường trường truong+` trường
Diacritics shifted forwards (to'an) toán toán tóan toán
Diacritics duplicated forwards (tru+ong) trưong trương trưong trưong
Diacritics attached to existing words Yes Must retype word Must retype word Yes
Overridden diacritics (ma'`?~.) mạ mạ mạ mạ
Erased diacritics (la'i-) lai Telex, VNI only Telex, VNI only lai
Escaped dead keys in VIQR (Ddu'ng\.) Đúng. Đúng\. Đúng\. Đúng.
Escaped dead keys by repetition (Sai..) Sai. Sai. Sai. Sai.
Canceled words (using Ctrl) No Yes No No
Ignored textboxes Yes Location Bar only No No
Single-line textboxes scroll to beginning when adding diacritics No Yes Yes Yes
Multiline textboxes scroll to top when adding diacritics No No No No
Spelling features
Spelling rules enforced Yes Yes No Yes
Old-style diacritic placement Yes Yes Spelling not enforced Yes
New-style diacritic placement Yes Yes Yes
Exceptions for informal spellings dz, f No No
User interface features
Status bar panel Yes Yes Yes Broken in Mac OS X
Menu Yes No No No
Toolbar buttons Yes No No No
Preferences window Yes No No No
Keyboard shortcuts Yes Broken in Mac OS X No Broken in Mac OS X
Preferences take effect throughout Firefox Yes No No No
Status bar panel can be hidden Yes No No No
Causes JavaScript errors No Yes No No
Firefox windows and dialog boxes
Main browser window Yes Yes Except in Search Bar and Find Bar Yes
JavaScript dialogs (prompt()) Yes No No No
Open Web Location dialog Yes No No No
Library (formerly the Bookmarks Organizer) Yes No No No
Add Bookmark panel Yes No No No
Bookmark All Tabs dialog Yes No No No
Bookmark Properties dialog Yes No No No
Page Source window Yes No No No
Downloads window Yes No No No
Add-ons window Yes No No No
Error Console (formerly the JavaScript Console) Yes No No No
Options dialog (Preferences window) Yes No No No
Report a Broken Web Site dialog Yes No No No
Flock-specific windows and dialog boxes
Blog Editor window Yes No Flock not supported Flock not supported
Image Properties dialog Yes No
Photo Uploader window Yes No
Supported extensions
ChatZilla Yes No No No
ColorZilla Yes No No No
Console² Yes No No No
Deepest Sender Yes No No No
DOM Inspector Yes No No No
Facebook Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes
Firebug Yes No No No
googlebar Yes No No No
Google Toolbar Yes No No No
iMacros Yes Sidebar only Sidebar only Sidebar only
JavaScript Debugger (Venkman) Yes No No No
Mozilla XForms Yes No No No
Nightly Tester Tools Yes No No No
Pencil Yes No No No
Prism for Firefox Yes No No No
pyshell for PyXPCOMExt Yes No No No
Quick Locale Switcher Yes No No No
ReminderFox Yes No No No
Sage-Too Yes No No No
ScrapBook Yes Yes Yes Yes
ScribeFire Yes Except separate window Except separate window Except separate window
SQLite Manager Yes No No No
StumbleUpon Yes No No No
Vietnamese Dictionary Yes Yes Yes Yes
Vietnamese Language Pack Yes Interface in English Interface in English Interface in English
vnDict Yes Yes Yes Yes
WebChunks Yes No No No
Web Developer Yes No No No
wmlbrowser Yes No No No
Yahoo! Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes
yoono Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zotero Yes No No No
Plain text controls
HTML single-line text fields (<input type="text">) Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML password fields (<input type="password">) No No No No
HTML multiline text areas (<textarea>) Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML index search fields (<isindex>) Yes No No No
Flash input textboxes No No No No
Java AWT textboxes (TextArea, TextField) No No No No
Java Swing textboxes (JTextField, JPasswordField, JComboBox) No No No No
XForms single-line text fields (<input>) Yes No No No
XForms password fields (<secret>) No No No No
XForms multiline text areas (<textarea>) Yes No No No
XForms combo boxes (<select1 selection="open">) Yes No No No
Rich text controls
Midas (designMode) Yes Yes No Yes
contentEditable Yes No No No
Java Swing textboxes (JFormattedTextField) No No No No
Rich text editors
AreaEdit Yes Yes Rich text editing not supported Yes
BlueShoes Wysiwyg Editor Yes Yes Yes
Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor Yes Yes Yes
Cute Editor Yes Yes Yes
DevEdit NX Yes Yes Yes
Dijit.Editor (Dojo) Yes No No
FCKeditor Yes Yes Yes
Google (Blogger, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sites, Knol) Yes Yes No
Movable Type Yes Yes Yes
openWYSIWYG Yes Yes No
RTEF Yes Yes Yes
RTWedit Yes Yes Yes
SPAW Editor Yes Yes Yes
TinyMCE Yes Yes Yes
Web Wiz Rich Text Editor Yes Yes Yes
Whizzywig Yes Yes Yes
widgEditor Yes Yes Yes
Xinha Yes Yes Yes
YUI Rich Text Editor Yes Yes Yes
Compatibility with in-page IMEs
AVIM (formerly HIM) Yes Yes Yes No
CHIM, Mudim Yes Yes Yes Yes
MViet Yes Yes Yes No
VietIMEW Yes Yes Yes No
VietTyping Yes Yes Yes No
VietUni Yes Yes Yes No
Vinova Yes No No No
Miscellaneous features
Status bar panel skins No Yes No No
Extension icon Yes No Yes No
Preferences using about:config Yes Yes No No
Incompatible extensions detected Yes No No No

Legend: Supported • Incomplete or buggy • Unsupported