Re: SpellCheck API?

2011/5/11 timeless <timeless@gmail.com>:
> With this model, i'd want the UA to provide instances for words which
> are misspelled according to its standard dictionary but which are in
> its user's custom dictionary. The web page can try to make
> suggestions, but generally the UA will choose to ignore the words
> because it knows that the user is happy with the current word.

This is tricky if the author's spellcheck breaks words differently
from the built-in spellcheck.  Also, the website might have its own
idea of the user's custom dictionary, which might be more correct than
the browser's (like if all Google sites tracked a custom dictionary
for you and you were using someone else's computer).  And the author's
spellcheck might actually be flagging a grammar error, or using
context-sensitive info to figure out that even though a particular
word is fine in general it's a mistake here.

So I'd be hesitant to say anything like this.

Received on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 22:30:40 UTC