Re: [editing-explainer] How can sites access browser spellchecking? (#36)

Hey, I understand your concern, but imagine if someone wanted to create a desktop app, and the platform people would just tell that developer: "Sorry, but we won't let you access the spell or grammar checker or differentiate between the two." Would that be acceptable? Probably not. Now we are building web based apps and we kind of need similar type access to functionality. Of course we need to be able to differentiate between grammar and spellchecker within our apps ourselves. This is something we need to be able to control with our UI, and not something browser developers should hide from us.In case you don't give this to us, we will need to entirely turn of the builtin spell/grammar checker and instead use third party tools on other sites, as you can do with plugins for the webbased editors already.

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