- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:27:43 -0700
Strongly agree. :) dave On Jun 23, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Alexey Feldgendler wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:22:34 +0700, Lachlan Hunt >> <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: >>> Roughly what percentage of all use cases would you expect >>> heuristics and user preferences to give suboptimal results, and >>> thus require the author's suggestion? >> IMHO we should not rely on unspecified heuristics. In some >> browsers, they work rather well, in some they might constantly >> fail. Leave heuristics for invalid pages, quirks mode etc -- or >> document these heuristics. > > Generally, that's true. But since spell checking is only a user > agent feature intended for the user (it doesn't affect the page or > author in any way) and interoperability between one browser's > heuristics and another is not required. Browsers should be allowed > to innovate as much as they like so they can come up with the best > method that suits their users. > > -- > Lachlan Hunt > http://lachy.id.au/
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