[whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

[Oliver Hunt]

It _may_ be worth discussing (as I am not all knowing) but I cannot see a way that these APIs could be added without opening up a user to privacy violations.  It is somewhat irksome to me that I have raised these exact issues in the past in the context of implementing editors in canvas and you appear to have chosen to ignore me.

--Oliver

On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote:

> Is there room for discussion of an API to expose misspelled ranges of text in contentEditable?
> 
> This would be building upon the spelling and grammar checking section:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html#spelling-and-grammar-checking
> 
> A method for a contentEditable section, along the lines of getSpellcheckRanges() would allow for content editors,
> to stylize and provide further UI controls around spell checking. Such an API could be used to warn the user that
> they have possibly misspelled text, in a similar way to how word processors convey the information.
> 
> It may not be feasible at the moment, but it could be worth some discussion. A Range list seems appropriate, though
> it would need something along the lines of getSuggestedSpelling() on each range.
> 
> 
> -Charles
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