On 3 Dec 2010, at 00:16, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> As a browser implementer, I can tell you I won't implement any
> specification that isn't motivated by use cases. So I definitely think
> you want to establish use cases if you're hoping to get browsers to
> implement your suggestion.

The major use case here remains being able to provide both spell checking as 
you type and a customised context menu within rich text editors.  Today that is 
not possible on any browser that I know of and it's one of if not the biggest 
selling point for our non-JavaScript editor (we offer both Java applet and 
Javascript based editors).  This use case would require providing spelling 
suggestions, not just identifying the location of spelling errors.

Notably, users do not want the full browser context menu with some custom 
additions (though obviously this would make a good option for some users) - 
having "View Source" for example is quite damaging to the usability of rich 
text editors since it would display a read-only source without running the 
editors source filtering, as opposed to the editor's built in source view which 
filters correctly and is editable.  There are also styling considerations which 
are addressed quite well with the current oncontextmenu handler and using pure 
HTML but which would likely become quite difficult when trying to integrate 
with a browser's native menu.

What further information do you require around this use case?

Regards,

Adrian Sutton.
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