- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:16:50 -0800
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote: > On 12/2/2010 4:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Charles Pritchard<chuck at jumis.com> ?wrote: >>> >>> I can tell you, that blocking the issue does have real usability costs: >> >> I don't know if everyone here actually agrees with that. ?Why can't >> you rely on the browser's built-in spell-checking? ?What are you >> trying to do here? ?What, in other words, is the actual use-case? ?I >> don't actually see you stating one in the thread (although maybe I'm >> just missing it). ?If there's no good use-case presented, then even >> without security problems, no one is likely to spec or implement the >> feature. > > The use case is highlighting a misspelled range, which is currently left up > to the browser, > as well as warning the user that there are misspelled ranges. > > I'm resistant to heading into another use case debate here. As a browser implementer, I can tell you I won't implement any specification that isn't motivated by use cases. So I definitely think you want to establish use cases if you're hoping to get browsers to implement your suggestion. > The red squigly [sic] lines current provided by proprietary IMEs do not > cater many uses: > They're meant to be generic, and they are. ?High contrast, large font, and > screen reading cases > all come up here. > > If we can get standard behavior and naming out of it, and some implementers > want to return > an empty range list when it's called, that's fine with me. If all you want is styling misspelled words, then all we need is to add a pseudo-element selector which can be styled using CSS. textarea::misspelled-word { background: pink; } / Jonas
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