- From: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:49:20 +0200
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote: > A method for triggering a system/ua spell check via execCommand > would be a small step forward. Is that something already available? > Afaik, it was canned from the early MS model. Bringing up system dialogs is scary/surprising and could be annoying[1]. I'm waiting for the day when a security vulnerability is reported for a system spellchecker. -- And don't laugh, the open source spell checkers we've used have some really crummy code w/ a rather poor track record when it comes to buffers and inputs. Thankfully so far most attacks against them have been by dictionary vendors instead of users, but... [1] we still get bugs from people complaining about while(1)alert("boo");
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