[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 59693] [Feature Request] Need SpellCheck API

Wed Jul 27 12:48:08 PDT 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59693

--- Comment #42 from Dimitri Glazkov (Google) <dglazkov at chromium.org>  2011-07-27 12:48:08 PST ---
(In reply to comment #41)
> > (In reply to comment #36)
> > > Where is the spec for this feature? I can't find it. Your Changelog entry should reference it.
> > 
> > Thank you for noticing it. Even though we have talked about this API last month, it is not so easy to read though the thread. I have sent an updated spec to summarize the thread <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/0413.html> and added this URL to ChangeLog.
> 
> I don't think an email in a mailing list constitutes a sufficiently stable spec. There needs to be at least an W3C editor's draft at a stable URL.

That seems a little rash. There are plenty of features that went into WebKit without meeting this requirement.

However, I can totally understand a concern about this API being useful enough to ever make it into an HTML spec.

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