WebKit's new Spellcheck API
A simple spellcheck API landed in WebKit on June 8, 2011, based on Aryeh Gregor's proposal in Hironori Bono's SpellCheck API thread on the public-webapps mailinglist. It allows you to manually supply suggestions for misspelled words, or, stricly seen, ranges of text.
The following two methods have been added to <textarea>, <input> and editable elements.
- void addSpellcheckRange (unsigned long start, unsigned long length, DOMStringList suggestions[, unsigned short options]);
- void removeSpellcheckRange (SpellcheckRange range);
Example (right-click the word "Chromiuum")
You need a Chromium Nightly to use this feature.
var inputElement = document.getElementById ('api-example');
inputElement.addSpellcheckRange
(
4,
9,
['Chrome', 'Firefox', 'Opera', 'Internet Explorer']
);
