358589 - Expose spellchecker suggestions to javascript

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement)

Description

[Alfonso Martinez]

I'm thinking about pages that use designMode and that might use a non-default context menu or that would like to just show spelling suggestions if a misspelled word is right-clicked.

I realize that this might requiere some thought about the user's privacy, but I think that it would be useful to provide such an API to let the page integrate the spellchecking with their interface. 

There are different ways this idea could be done, the most basic and secure one would be to make the API available only on the contextMenu event when it's done over a misspelled word, offer an array with the possible suggestions. But it could also be useful to have an API where at any time the page can query if a word is misspelled and offer that way a popup window to check the spelling of all the document with options like replace all, ignore all, etc...

Comment 1

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

For privacy reasons, we do not want to let pages access to the dictionary of our users.