Comment by whywhywhywhy

2 years ago

>Would you want your operating system to provide a web browser, pdf viewer, and spreadsheet

I mean I have little use for an OS without a web browser so yes. PDF viewer, Preview.app is infinitely better than Acrobat Reader so yes again. Spreadsheet I can give or take.

The idea of multiple teams all rolling spellcheckers to build upon the same input boxes is absurd to me. Should be as integrated into the machine as the cursor and caret imho.

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jitl  2 years ago

Well, neither Google’s cursor or caret are drawn by the system. They want ultimate control, not ultimate integration with the host browser/OS.

Most electron and web editors that use ContentEditable should be able to use the OS spellcheck. Notion uses OS spell checking on web & Mac electron. I think on Windows there’s some weird issue we had to work around but I think we resumed using the OS dictionary, I’m not up to date on that.