On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:38:42 +0100, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> 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.
Opera wants to support this feature as well in due course, so I don't
think we would mind it being added to HTML5. Does it being in Chrome mean
it is also WebKit? If so, together with Firefox support, seems like a
compelling reason to add the feature.
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
