On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:26:31 +0700, Sander Tekelenburg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Authors should set the document's language information, to enable user
agents to accurately determine which dictionary to use when checking
the spelling or grammar of user input.
IMO this "should" should be a "must". We're going see truckloads of sites
that have spellcheck=on, simply because authoring tools will insert it by
default, that don't bother to specify a language. The user-agent will
then have to revert to the local default language, which can be a
serious problem for all those milions whose default language is
something else than
the webpage's language and who allow spellcheck to be on.
The language to use for spellchecking is, in general, different from the
language that the webpage is written in. For example, when entering a blog
entry into textarea, the user is more likely to write in his native
language, which is also the local default language of his user agent, than
in the language which the blogging application's UI is in. Using the local
default language seems more appropriate here.
Even worse: when entering text in textarea, the user actually has a choice
which language to write in. I think the user agent should provide, besides
just the control to turn spellchecking on and off, a choice of languages.
--
Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
