http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-road-to-html-5-spellchecking-and-contentedible Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-road-to-html-5-spellchecking-and-contentedible/comment-page-1#comment-271867 eyelidlessness Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:26:37 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=6199#comment-271867 Oh, if only browsers implemented a default editor. All of the RTEs out there are such disappointments. :( Oh, if only browsers implemented a default editor. All of the RTEs out there are such disappointments. :(

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-road-to-html-5-spellchecking-and-contentedible/comment-page-1#comment-271843 Spocke Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:33:31 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=6199#comment-271843 It's a bummer that only FF support the spellcheck attribute it's a good thing to have this in the HTML5 spec so every other browser vendor implements it. It's pretty stable on textareas but it produces lots of bugs on contentEditable areas. Also there doesn't seem to be a spec to style the spellchecker underline color. I would have wanted to see this as css properties instead like -spellcheck-enabled: true, -spellcheck-color: red or something. It’s a bummer that only FF support the spellcheck attribute it’s a good thing to have this in the HTML5 spec so every other browser vendor implements it. It’s pretty stable on textareas but it produces lots of bugs on contentEditable areas. Also there doesn’t seem to be a spec to style the spellchecker underline color. I would have wanted to see this as css properties instead like -spellcheck-enabled: true, -spellcheck-color: red or something.

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-road-to-html-5-spellchecking-and-contentedible/comment-page-1#comment-271841 WebReflection Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:25:21 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=6199#comment-271841 uhm ... I have implemented spell check for IE as well (textarea if you want but inside Ext.JS editor too extending it, for example) but I did not know about this spec ... (and obviously IE8 is out of the box, right?) For those interested, <a href="http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2009/02/hunspell-for-javascript-quick-and-dirty.html" rel="nofollow">BJSpell</a> is the project name, in <a href="http://code.google.com/p/bjspell/" rel="nofollow">Google Code</a> as well. uhm … I have implemented spell check for IE as well (textarea if you want but inside Ext.JS editor too extending it, for example) but I did not know about this spec … (and obviously IE8 is out of the box, right?)
For those interested, BJSpell is the project name, in Google Code as well.

]]> http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-road-to-html-5-spellchecking-and-contentedible/comment-page-1#comment-271838 byjones Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:26:55 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=6199#comment-271838 contentEdible? Can you really eat the content? Yummy! I think you mean contentEditable contentEdible? Can you really eat the content? Yummy! I think you mean contentEditable

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