On 30 Dec 2008, at 11:38, Ian Hickson wrote:
In 2006 I proposed the following spec for a spellcheck="" attribute,
based on requests from the Google engineers then working on Firefox:
http://www.damowmow.com/playground/spellcheck.txt
The same engineers have since implemented this feature in Chrome
also, and
Google does use this attribute on its sites. However, the attribute
has
seen very little interest outside of Google, with just a handful of
sites
using it, primarily in dyanamic editor libraries.
I have therefore not added this feature to HTML5 for the time being.
If
there is more interest in this feature, please speak up.
This seems stupid. If I want to have spell-checking, let me. Don't
force it off. I don't see any reason to have it forced off, ever.
--
Geoffrey Sneddon
<http://gsnedders.com/>
