Open Bug 360434 Opened 18 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Spell checker should always check words that are displayed on screen

Categories

(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Spelling checker
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: chbok, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Related with bug 324521, inline spellchecker stop checking words after the extensions.spellcheck.inline.max-misspellings pref. It often occurs in a textarea which have a max cols and a max rows for displaying, and have scrollbars in case of long text. Would you consider, instead of spellchecking words from the start of the textarea, only spellcheck words that are displayed on screen? The number of words to spellcheck would be limited by cols and rows. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a form with a textarea 2. copy inside it a large misspelled text Actual Results: Spellchecker does not checking all words at the bottom of textarea due to limit set in extensions.spellcheck.inline.max-misspellings Expected Results: The spellchecker must do its job in the displayed zone of the textarea.
Depends on: 324521
Assignee: nobody → mscott
Component: Form Manager → Spelling checker
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: form.manager → spelling-checker
Version: unspecified → 1.8 Branch
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Spellchecker stops working after a while in long text fields → Spell checker should always check words that are displayed on screen
Version: 1.8 Branch → Trunk
Severity: normal → S3
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