No way to support "Check Spelling While Typing" setting by toggling spellchecker webpreference

[jwheare]

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Issue Details

• Electron Version:
  • v8.0.0
• Operating System:
  • macOS 10.15.3

With the built in spellchecker landed in 8.0.0, there is no way to toggle spellchecking behaviour without recreating a BrowserWindow, since it's only exposed as a boolean on webPreferences.

This makes it impossible to implement the standard "Check Spelling While Typing" menu item on macOS.

Please provide a runtime toggle for this.

[thomasdao]

I can work around this issue by setting spellcheck="false" to the DOM element that doesn't require spellcheck.

[MarshallOfSound]

As @thomasdao suggested, with the new Spellchecker Electron is aligning more with how Chromium works and there is already a webstandard way for disabling the spellchecker on DOM elements. You should be using that 👍