382771 - Spellchecker shouldn't require whitespace after block elements to delimit words

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[Phil Crosby]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: 

In Midas,

"<div>spell</div>check" is processed as one word (and so triggers spellcheck). This, however, is processed as two words:

"<div>spell</div>\ncheck"

Whitespace after a block element shouldn't be required to delimit words.

Adding whitespace after the <div> seems trivial, but unfortunately this bug has no workaround if you're using the editor's insertHTML command to insert html, because that command trims whitespace. Thus, editor.execCommand("insertHTML","<div>heading</div>\n") will not insert a newline after the <div>, and the "heading" text will trigger spellcheck with the words surrounding it.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Phil Crosby]

Attachment: test case as attachment

test case as attachment

Comment 2

[Karim Shehadeh]

Seeing this behavior in Firefox 3 RC2 while editing a document in Google Docs.

Comment 3

[Karim Shehadeh]

Attachment: Google docs screenshot showing another example of spellcheck "error" in correctly spelled text

Comment 4

[Karim Shehadeh]

Attachment: Google docs screenshot showing another example of spellcheck "error" in correctly spelled text

Comment 5

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.