[whatwg] <input type="text" accept="">
Anne van Kesteren
fora at annevankesteren.nl
Sun Jun 11 09:29:39 PDT 2006
Quoting Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru>:
>>> One can also say that authors should not have explicit control
>>> over whether hyperlinks are underlined or not.
>
>> The difference is that underlining is presentation, spell checking
>> is not. The functionality of a link cannot be changed with CSS,
>> likewise spell checking shouldn't either.
>
> Enabling or disabling spell checking doesn't change the functionality
> of an input. It can still be used to submit arbitrary text to the
> server. But misspelled words in an input with spellchecking enabled are
> underlined with a wavy red line (and the underlining style could even
> be changed by CSS), and that's presentation.
And providing alternate suggestions, synonyms et cetera is too? Having
some kind of "semantic sheets" would be cool I guess for these kind of
things... I guess it looks like it would fit in CSS because the
functionality is not strictly needed, but I'm unsure if it's really
just presentation...
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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