[whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com
Sun Nov 28 07:52:34 PST 2010


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton at ephox.com> wrote:
> User's expect a rich text editor
> to override the browser default context menu to provide things like
> properties for images, lists, tables etc and the other stuff usually found
> in a rich text editor's context menu.  However, once that is done, the
> browser's built-in spelling suggestions are no longer available, effectively
> losing support for inline spell checking.

"The user agent may also provide access to its default context menu,
if any, with the context menu shown. For example, it could merge the
menu items from the two menus together, or provide the page's context
menu as a submenu of the default menu."

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/interactive-elements.html#context-menus

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis



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