- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:55:58 +0100
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:38:42 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > In 2006 I proposed the following spec for a spellcheck="" attribute, > based on requests from the Google engineers then working on Firefox: > > http://www.damowmow.com/playground/spellcheck.txt > > The same engineers have since implemented this feature in Chrome also, > and > Google does use this attribute on its sites. However, the attribute has > seen very little interest outside of Google, with just a handful of sites > using it, primarily in dyanamic editor libraries. > > I have therefore not added this feature to HTML5 for the time being. If > there is more interest in this feature, please speak up. Opera wants to support this feature as well in due course, so I don't think we would mind it being added to HTML5. Does it being in Chrome mean it is also WebKit? If so, together with Firefox support, seems like a compelling reason to add the feature. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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