Bug 12937

Summary: REGRESSION - Check Spelling As You Type menu in text fields is broken
Product: WebKit Reporter: Gibbons Burke <gibbonsb>
Component: TextAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Major CC: gibbonsb
Priority: P2    
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.4   
URL: http://webkit.org/blog/?p=96
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Description Flags
Screen capture showing empty spell-check menu in WebKit
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Screen capture showing spell-suggest working correctly in Safari none

Gibbons Burke
Reported 2007-03-01 10:12:02 PST
The pop-up menu that appears when you right-click on a mis-spelt word in a web form text field in Webkit does not include any suggestions for the correct way to spell the word. I will attach screen shots from Safari (which works properly) and Webkit showing this misbehavior.
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Screen capture showing empty spell-check menu in WebKit (28.38 KB, image/png)
2007-03-01 10:15 PST, Gibbons Burke 		no flags
Details
Screen capture showing spell-suggest working correctly in Safari (65.58 KB, image/png)
2007-03-01 10:18 PST, Gibbons Burke 		no flags
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Gibbons Burke
Comment 1 2007-03-01 10:15:09 PST
Created attachment 13436 [details] Screen capture showing empty spell-check menu in WebKit The mis-spelt word is 'teh'
Gibbons Burke
Comment 2 2007-03-01 10:18:16 PST
Created attachment 13438 [details] Screen capture showing spell-suggest working correctly in Safari Same word, same form, using the retail version of Safari instead of the latest nightly build.
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 3 2007-03-02 06:34:29 PST
This is a known incompatibility with the nightly WebKit builds: http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/wiki/Known%20incompatibilities%20between%20open-source%20WebKit%20and%20Safari *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12761 ***
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