- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:28:30 +0100
Gervase Markham wrote: > Alexey Feldgendler wrote: >> Check spelling: >> ( ) Never >> (*) As the page author suggests >> ( ) Always This isn't actually strictly necessary at all - one can imagine the setting being on a per field basis with the author value representing the default and the user being able to choose via the context menu (Firefox has a similar system to this but it doesn't seem to remember your selection between page visits). Of course it's less obvious how this would override the DOM method so a sufficiently determined author could reset all the values every few ms using a timer. > But that really brings out the foolishness of the idea. I can imagine a > user looking at that option and thinking "Duh - how on earth is the page > author ever going to know when and how I want spelling checked?" > > What use cases did we come up with where there might be a <textfield> or > <textfield type="text/plain"> where having spell checking always on > would cause problems? Surely the worst that could happen would be some > inappropriate red squiggly underlines. Hardly a disaster. The only sensible use case that has been suggested so far is for online email apps which allow > 1 email addresses in an <input type="text"> - in this case none of the text will be recognized by the spellchecker vs. an <input type="text"> which contains an email subject line, which should be spellchecked.
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