Re: SpellCheck API?

Greetings web-application developers, Sorry for my slow update. I would like to post the updated version of my proposal (applied comments in this thread as much as possible) since it is not so easy to read through this thread. I would be great to correct me if I'm wrong. Regards, Hironori Bono E

Re: SpellCheck API?

Greetings Aryeh, et al, Thank you for your alternative suggestion. In my honest opinion, I do not stick to my interfaces so much if there are better alternatives. My proposal is just based on my prototype, which has been uploaded to , and I wish someone in this ML provid

Re: SpellCheck API?

On 05/12/2011 01:29 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: 2011/5/11 timeless: With this model, i'd want the UA to provide instances for words which are misspelled according to its standard dictionary but which are in its user's custom dictionary. The web page can try to make suggestions, but generally the UA

Re: SpellCheck API?

2011/5/11 timeless : > With this model, i'd want the UA to provide instances for words which > are misspelled according to its standard dictionary but which are in > its user's custom dictionary. The web page can try to make > suggestions, but generally the UA will choose to ignore the words > beca

Re: SpellCheck API?

2011/5/11 Aryeh Gregor : > Here's an alternative suggestion that addresses the issues I had > above, while (I think) still addressing all your use-cases.  Create a > new interface: > > interface SpellcheckRange { >  readonly unsigned long start; >  readonly unsigned long length; >  readonly DOMStri

Re: SpellCheck API?

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Olli Pettay wrote: > Something like that might be better. Do you have the exact API in mind? Well, just the same as I originally proposed, except with arrays instead of scalars. But Hironori Bono's reply has mooted this idea anyway. 2011/5/11 Hironori Bono (坊野 博

Re: SpellCheck API?

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 06:49, Olli Pettay wrote: > On 05/10/2011 01:44 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Boris Zbarsky  wrote: >>> >>> This does mean firing tens of thousands of events during load on some >>> pages >>> (e.g. wikipedia article edit pages)  Maybe tha

Re: SpellCheck API?

Greetings all, Thank you so much for all of your comments. Even though I cannot answer all of them, I have added my responses to some comments. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Hironori Bono (坊野 博典) wrote: > function CheckText(text) { > var result = new Array; > var app = new ActiveXObject('

Re: SpellCheck API?

On 05/10/2011 08:33 PM, Adam Shannon wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 06:49, Olli Pettay wrote: On 05/10/2011 01:44 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Boris Zbarskywrote: This does mean firing tens of thousands of events during load on some pages (e.g. wikipedia artic

Re: SpellCheck API?

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Olli Pettay wrote: > Just a quick test on Nokia N900 (which is already a bit old mobile > phone) using a recent browser: > dispatching 1 events to a deep (depth 100) DOM (without > listeners for the event - for testing purposes) takes about 3 seconds. How did

Re: SpellCheck API?

On 05/10/2011 08:33 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Olli Pettay wrote: Just a quick test on Nokia N900 (which is already a bit old mobile phone) using a recent browser: dispatching 1 events to a deep (depth 100) DOM (without listeners for the event - for testing pur

Re: SpellCheck API?

On 05/10/2011 01:44 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: This does mean firing tens of thousands of events during load on some pages (e.g. wikipedia article edit pages) Maybe that's not a big deal. If that's too many events, couldn't the browser op

Re: SpellCheck API?

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > This does mean firing tens of thousands of events during load on some pages > (e.g. wikipedia article edit pages)  Maybe that's not a big deal. If that's too many events, couldn't the browser optimize by not spellchecking words until they

Re: SpellCheck API?

On 5/9/11 3:39 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: * Every time the UA would normally invoke its spellchecker on a word, it fires a spellcheck event at the element in question This does mean firing tens of thousands of events during load on some pages (e.g. wikipedia article edit pages) Maybe that's

Re: SpellCheck API?

2011/5/9 Hironori Bono (坊野 博典) : > function CheckTextOfNode(node) { >   // Remove all the previous spellchecking results. >   window.spellCheckController.removeMarkers(node); > >   // Check the text in the specified node. >   var result = CheckText(node.innerText ? node.innerText : node.value); >  

Re: SpellCheck API?

> > This is the privacy violation, and not acceptable as such. > I wonder how to not expose native spellchecker data to web page, yet > support this use case. Or do we need yet another permission, which user > has to give to the page before the spellchecker API fully working. > In general permis

Re: SpellCheck API?

On 05/09/2011 11:58 AM, Hironori Bono (坊野 博典) wrote: Greetings, I'm Hironori Bono, a software engineer for Google Chrome. We recently received requests from web-application developers (and extension developers) that they would like to use the spellchecker Quite different targets. integrated i

SpellCheck API?

Greetings, I'm Hironori Bono, a software engineer for Google Chrome. We recently received requests from web-application developers (and extension developers) that they would like to use the spellchecker integrated into Google Chrome and to replace the spellchecker with their spellcheckers implemen