[whatwg] Spellchecking mark III

[Kornel Lesiński]

On 31.12.2008, at 15:15, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> It does make sense I guess, that certain fields should not be  
> subject to automatic spellchecking. However, three counterpoints:
>
> 1) At least Safari's spellchecking won't mark a word misspelled  
> until you hit a space; fields that contain data which would be  
> flagged by the spellchecker but which are also likely to contain  
> internal whitespace are rare.

In Webkit spellchecking is also done when field loses focus, so even a  
single-word fields would be flagged.

> 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.  
> 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.

I don't like current proposal either, because "true"/"false" value is  
inconsistent with other boolean attributes in HTML. IMHO it should be  
nospellcheck="nospellcheck" (which also solves problem of forcing  
spellchecking where it doesn't make sense).

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regards, Kornel