[whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

[Geoffrey Sneddon]

On 30 Dec 2008, at 11:38, Ian Hickson 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.

This seems stupid. If I want to have spell-checking, let me. Don't  
force it off. I don't see any reason to have it forced off, ever.


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Geoffrey Sneddon
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