[whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

> 2) The proposal Hixie linked seems way overengineered for this purpose.
> First, it allows spellchecking to be explicitly turned on, potentially
> overriding normal defaults, but that seems wrong; an <input type="email">
> should never spellcheck regardless of the page author says. I can't see any
> valid use case for the author turning spellchecking on regardless of UA
> defaults or user preferences.
>

It allows you to have a region of text where spellchecking is disabled via
the spellcheck attribute, but containing subregions where spellchecking is
enabled.

Second, it allows spellchecking to be controlled at a finer granularity than
> editability, for which again I think there is no valid use case. Both of
> these aspects make the feature more complicated to implement and harder to
> understand, compared to just having a way to only disable spellchecking at
> the same granularity as editing.
>

A use case is editable program code, where spellchecking is disabled, but
where spellchecking is enabled inside comments. Maybe that sounds a little
far-fetched for today's Web applications, but some IDEs (e.g. Eclipse)
support this so it seems like something we'd want in the future.

Rob
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