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Bug 8094 - It's not very clear whether or not this includes word-style, squiggly-line, as-you-type spell-checking. This feature sounds like more of a manual spell-check done after a body of text is completed. Should a spell-check option be added to the CSS spec for
Summary: It's not very clear whether or not this includes word-style, squiggly-line, a...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-10-27 22:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:56 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-10-27 22:46:44 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#spelling-and-grammar-checking

Comment:
It's not very clear whether or not this includes word-style, squiggly-line, as-you-type spell-checking. This feature sounds like more of a manual spell-check done after a body of text is completed. Should a spell-check option be added to the CSS spec for presentation-only spell-checking (i.e. no function available to actually modify the text, just show that it could be misspelled)?

Posted from: 128.208.61.140
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-12-08 13:38:07 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: It's not supposed to constrain the browsers to any one type of spelling checking. I've added a note to this effect. I don't know whether we should add stuff to CSS for this; I recommend contacting that working group to follow up on that suggestion.
Comment 2 contributor 2009-12-08 13:39:29 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4415.
Check-in comment: Mention that spelling checking UI is not defined.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4414&to=4415