- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:45:55 +0000
On 30 Dec 2008, at 11:38, Ian Hickson 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. This seems stupid. If I want to have spell-checking, let me. Don't force it off. I don't see any reason to have it forced off, ever. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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