On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be better if we could consult Google for spelling > recommendations. It seems like I frequently misspell a word, get the > red squiggly, get no recommendations from Chromium, then go to Google > and it gets it exactly right.
The problem isn't technical, it's that to do that spell correction it'd involve sending all text form data up to a Google server. In fact, I believe Google Toolbar for IE already does it (glancing at this http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/static.py?page=features.html page mentions spell check under the privacy section) But given the current perception of privacy and Chrome, I wonder if the negative perception of even an opt-in implementation would outweigh the user benefit in building in such a feature. (Consider how many people misunderstand our existing opt-in user metrics.) I agree it should be done as an extension -- hook keypresses on text input boxes and set a timer for contacting the server, etc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
