Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread L. David Baron
On Saturday 2006-06-24 11:45 +0700, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: IMHO we should not rely on unspecified heuristics. In some browsers, they work rather well, in some they might constantly fail. Leave heuristics for invalid pages, quirks mode etc -- or document these heuristics. I agree, but

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:27:33 +0700, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, a CSS/XBL based approach would be better here. I do not understand what you mean by a CSS/XBL approach in this context. Moving the spellchecking control out of HTML into CSS or XBL binding. -- Alexey

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread mail
+1 I've read this discussion,but i do not understand exactly why this should be denoted in markup.i do not understand why it is needed anyway.is the lang attribute not sufficient? what about denoting every paragraph in a document should be spellchecked,and denoting every del not? what do

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread Matthew Raymond
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: I'd say that if the user has globally disabled spellchecking, the author should not be able to override this. However, author's ability to explicitly disable spellchecking on some elements is meant to improve usability. I might be persuaded to allow an

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread Matthew Raymond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:27:33 +0700, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, a CSS/XBL based approach would be ere. I do not understand what you mean by a CSS/XBL approach in this context. Moving the spellchecking control out of HTML into CSS or XBL

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Quoting Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:27:33 +0700, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, a CSS/XBL based approach would be ere. I do not understand what you mean by a CSS/XBL approach in this context. Moving the spellchecking

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread Lachlan Hunt
L. David Baron wrote: The problem is that heuristics are only heuristics when they operate on input written without knowledge of the heuristics. When the input was written with knowledge of the heuristics, they become de facto standards. Authors will learn what triggers spellchecking (or

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:14:02 +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 I've read this discussion,but i do not understand exactly why this should be denoted in markup.i do not understand why it is needed anyway.is the lang attribute not sufficient? It's not sufficient because the lang attribute

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-24 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:26:19 +0700, Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be persuaded to allow an author to specify whether or not to enable spell checking in the event that the user has not specified the setting themselves for a specific type of input field. However, if, for