- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:32:43 +0000
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 11:27 +0200, timeless wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote: > > Is there room for discussion of an API > > there's room to discuss such things. > > > to expose misspelled ranges of text in contentEditable? > > I'm worried about privacy risks. > > Some devices have a tendency to learn passwords as typed words, other > private terms get added to known words. If a web page has the ability > to talk to the spell checker, it could send it a stream of things > which aren't in a standard dictionary to determine if they are in the > user's custom dictionary. But why would a password field ever be tied to a contentEditable section? As far as I was aware, password fields are very special, and don't do a lot of things that other fields do, so it wouldn't be difficult for it to not do something else would it?! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20101128/f5519147/attachment.htm>
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