Greetings Hajime-san, Even though this is out of this topic, from the point of a web-application developer, it would be great for WebKit to have a JavaScript API that encapsulates your spellchecker code so JavaScript can use it.
Regards, Hironori Bono E-mail: [email protected] On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Hajime Morita <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi WebKit folks, > > I'm thinking about porting Hunspell-based spellchecking code > from Chromium to WebKit/WebCore. > > Although it's unclear whether the porting is feasible, I'd like to > hear how much interest is there from other ports before starting > actual work. > > Because the main goal is to make spellcheck available for more ports, > It would be just a waste if there is no demand. > > For example, I heard that GTK+ has GtkSpell, which is based on > Enchant. Because our code is based on Hunspell, GtkSpell based > integration is out of scope of this proposal... I have no idea about > Qt, EFL, etc. > > BTW, here is an under-half-baked-rough plan: > > - Extract spellcheck related methods on EditorClient, > to interface (or abstract class) named, say, platform/text/TextChecker. > - with keeping existing method, for compatibility > - Add a getter like "TextChecker* textChecker() = 0;" to EditorClient. > - Implement TextCheckerHunspell, a subclass of TextCheckerHunspell > - TextCheckerHunspellChromium and some other variants will also be > added, to make Chromium specific hooks. > - (optional) Move Mac's spellchecker implementation from > WebCoreSupport/WebEditorClient > to platform/text/TextCheckerCocoa, another subclass of TextChecker. > - (optional) Remove legacy methods on EditorClient > > This approach would make spellchecker pluggable, > so WebKit can choose preferable spellchecker at runtime with this. > (For example, Chromium port wants to use both Hunspell and system > spellchecker. > GTK port might want use Enchant and Hunspell.) > > Is this beneficial for your port? > Are there other design possibilities? > Any feedback is welcome. > > -- > morrita > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
