[Tickets #11863] Re: HTML format breaks

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DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. THIS EMAIL ADDRESS IS NOT MONITORED.

Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/11863
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  Ticket             | 11863
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | HTML format breaks
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Unconfirmed
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2012-12-11 19:02) wrote:

> This bug may seem a low priority but due to the nature of email  
> conversations and the continuous back and forth replying, emails  
> quickly fill with  a tremendous amount of junk.

So you are 1) replying via HTML and 2) then doing spellcheck on this  
replied message?  That seems extremely un-useful.

First, you are going to be catching spell errors in the original  
message (which are irrelevant).  And its doubtful that all misspelled  
words will be caught (and there will probably be false positives)  
since it is pretty much impossible to determine discrete "words" in  
HTML data.  For example:  
<span>t</span><span>e</span><span>e</span><span>s</span><span>t</span>.  Boom:  
there's a misspelled word (teest) that won't be caught.

You are right: this shouldn't be low priority, this should be zero  
priority.  In fact, thinking about this... we should probably totally  
disable spellchecking for any HTML data NOT created via IMP.  That's  
the only way of guaranteeing some semblance of acceptable  
spellchecking performance.