On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:55 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
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.
The Google Chrome team has not submitted patches for such a feature to
WebKit. I am not sure if they plan to eventually submit it to mainline
WebKit. In fact, this is the first I've heard about Chrome having such
an extension.
It's not clear to me whether the feature is useful without seeing some
motivating examples. WebKit by default spellchecks (and grammar
checks) all editable parts of the document, and it is not obvious to
me why one would want to force it off for particular form controls or
editable HTML areas.
Regards,
Maciej
