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Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top Comment: Browsers use customizable dictionaries to correct spelling and tend to mark some names as wrong, that it shouldn't. Maybe each website can inform the browser of words/names it expects to be used and add it (in the scope of that page) to the exceptions. If you can respond; has this been suggested? Posted from: 190.166.124.163
How would you propose such a thing, using a datalist linked to the textfield? What happens if the user isnt in the same language? should the word list just be for names? Can imagine it may be useful for a code editor to validate keywords, but then the javascript route is more common.
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mass-move component to LC1
This bug was cloned to create HTML WG bug 19037.
Any implementors interested in adding site-specific dictionary support?
Given the lack of interest from browser vendors in terms of providing a spelling checker API or hooks into their spelling checking, I'm marking this WONTFIX.