Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-25 Thread Matthew Raymond
Anne van Kesteren wrote: So I'm not sure about using CSS or XBL, but I do see a need coming back where you can simple do: foo { spellcheck:on; content:html-snippet } ... or something like that and have it globally declared for _every_ page that uses the property sheet instead of on

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-25 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jun 24, 2006, at 17:02, Lachlan Hunt wrote: I could easily imagine authors wanting to disable spell checking simply because the squiggly red underlines clash with their site's colour scheme. One way to deal with that problem is to ship browsers with spell checking turned off. Web

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Quoting Matthew Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I'm not sure about using CSS or XBL, but I do see a need coming back where you can simple do: foo { spellcheck:on; content:html-snippet } ... or something like that and have it globally declared for _every_ page that uses the property sheet

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-25 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: ... However, the proposed spellcheck attribute has one major advantage over all of those: it's being designed to allow the user to easily override it if they want to. But realistically, browsers won't allow the user

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-25 Thread Andrew Fedoniouk
Hi, Ian, I'd be happy without the attribute at all, but Mozilla is going to have something to enable/disable this feature from markup, and they wanted to have a spec for it so they asked WHATWG to provide a strawman. I figure it's better to have a spec and an implementation than just an

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-25 Thread Matthew Raymond
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: Spellchecker looks like pure behavioral entity. Behavior is generally handled exclusively by Javascript, but some people have expressed that having to use script to enable spell checking is highly undesirable. So I would define this as: style #myeditor {

Re: [whatwg] Spellchecking proposal #2

2006-06-25 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:16:09 +0700, Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But realistically, browsers won't allow the user to easily override it if they want to, because any interface for doing that would be absurd. Not necessarily. Check spelling: ( ) Never (*) As the page author