19037 – 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

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Bug 19037 - 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

Summary: Browsers use customizable dictionaries to correct spelling and tend to mark s...

Status:	RESOLVED LATER

Alias:	None

Product:	HTML WG
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other other

Importance:	P3 normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact:	HTML WG Bugzilla archive list

URL:	http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported:	2012-09-25 21:57 UTC by contributor
Modified:	2013-12-26 03:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-09-25 21:57:51 UTC

This was was cloned from bug 11592 as part of operation LATER convergence.
Originally filed: 2010-12-23 00:41:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2010-12-23 00:41:06 +0000 
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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
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 #1   John Drinkwater                                 2011-01-13 15:39:33 +0000 
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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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 #2   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-02-16 09:18:56 +0000 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: none yet
Rationale: Providing a custom site-specific dictionary is an interesting idea. I'm marking this bug LATER for now since we're waiting for browsers to catch up with implementing the features we've already added before adding more, but we'll revisit this at some point when looking at the various spell checking feature requests we've received.
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