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Bug 532510 - Make spellcheck work with Webkit backend
Make spellcheck work with Webkit backend
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Backend
git master
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Xan Lopez
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 523868
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-10 18:25 UTC by Matt Joras
Modified: 2010-01-21 19:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Matt Joras 2008-05-10 18:25:08 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When I right click on a work I want to correct, because I know that it is wrong, choose spelling and grammar, choose any option, and nothing happens at all. There is no command line output either, just nothing happens.  

Steps to reproduce:
1. Navigate to site with text entry. 
2. Enter somethign that is purposefully spelled wrong.
3. Right-click the word, go into spelling and grammar, and choose any option.

Actual results:
Absolutely nothing, no response or anything.

Expected results:
I'm not sure, I would assume that it would do what it is labeled to do, ie check the spelling and grammar now.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-05-13 07:55:32 UTC 
-> Backend:WebKit
Comment 2 Jelle de Jong 2008-10-20 07:07:44 UTC 
I can confirm this behavior with the current epiphany-webkit package under Debian sid. Being able to spellcheck is kind of a nice feature, any change that this can be fixed?
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2008-12-10 16:01:16 UTC 
Depends on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15616 ?
Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2009-07-30 17:29:44 UTC 
Seems that spell checking works now with webkit backend and epiphany-2.27.5 (I would prefer to have spell checking for english and spanish like evolution allows... but it's a different topic ;-))
Comment 5 Xan Lopez 2009-08-01 15:18:57 UTC 
This has been fixed in WebKitGTK+ a while ago, should work with latest versions.
Comment 6 Jeremy Nickurak 2010-01-21 19:46:57 UTC 
This seems to have regressed. No indication of any spelling errers in this sentense, epiphany 2.29.5, with webkit 1.19.