[whatwg] Exposing spelling/grammar suggestions in contentEditable

[Simon Pieters]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:27:30 +0100, Adrian Sutton  
<adrian.sutton at ephox.com> wrote:

> On 28 Nov 2010, at 15:52, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
>> 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
>
> It could, but it doesn't. Any browser that tried doing that would likely  
> just run into compatibility complaints and have to revert it.

Note that the referenced spec section is about <menu> context menus, a  
feature that to my knowledge is not implemented in browsers yet and not  
used by Web content yet.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software