Tickets :: [#3849] Disable spell-checking button for empty message

6.0.0-beta1

9/24/25

Summary	Disable spell-checking button for empty message
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	HEAD
Type	Enhancement
State	Rejected
Priority	1. Low
Owners
Requester	selsky (at) columbia (dot) edu
Created	04/27/2006 (7090 days ago)
Due
Updated	11/03/2006 (6900 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved	11/03/2006 (6900 days ago)
Milestone
Patch	No

11/03/2006 07:40:45 AM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #8 State ⇒ Rejected	Reply to this comment
Agreeing with Jan (and myself) - too much overhead to check for something that really isn't broken in the first place.

04/28/2006 04:46:00 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #7	Reply to this comment
What if the textarea has a single space in it? It will look blank to the user, but spellcheck would be enabled. It might confuse them why spellcheck is enabled in this situation, but be disabled in a situation (truly blank message) that may not be discernable to them. Adding a bunch of javascript to check for this (it may be trivial in the text case, but it may require quite a bit more for html mode) doesn't seem to be worth it IMHO.

04/28/2006 04:45:42 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #6	Reply to this comment
I'm confused. Why do you want to be able to spellcheck empty text?

04/28/2006 04:42:53 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
You don't, but it doesn't matter if you do. It adds a needless check, smells to me like Windows' "Are you really sure you want to move that object to the trash?" kind-of questions.

04/28/2006 04:39:39 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
Right, but why do you need to spellcheck it?

04/28/2006 04:36:50 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #3	Reply to this comment
Sounds reasonable to me. Why? If you send a message without entering text, the recipient will get an empty message. So what? I mean, it doesn't break anything or doesn't do anything unexpected.

04/28/2006 12:22:07 AM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #2 State ⇒ Accepted	Reply to this comment
Sounds reasonable to me.

04/27/2006 08:54:34 PM	Matt Selsky	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 1. Low Type ⇒ Enhancement Summary ⇒ Disable spell-checking button for empty message Queue ⇒ IMP State ⇒ New	Reply to this comment
If you click "check spelling" on an empty message the textarea turns to a blank area. Should the spell-check button just be disabled until text is actually entered?