Spell Checker

I have some code that does spellcheck using a servlet that I integrated with htmlarea that I could donate.

Someone would need to come up with the dialogs on the clinet end to do the spellchecking UI.

I've been EXTREMELY happy with spellerpages.

It's another SF project. JS interface is LOVELY, and seems to work across all browsers.

Only drawback is it uses aspell, but that's freely availiable for many platforms.

There are a couple of rather nice java spellcheckers, but drawback with all seems the lack of interface. Maybe we could use the JS from spellerpages? I'm not a wiz with JS, so I don't know. But I can guess edumicatetitly.

I just tried spellerpages. I like the UI layout, but htmlarea's spell checker allows you to replace misspelled words in a random access manner while Spellerpages only allows you to replace words serially.

And the javascript is set up for serial, and not random, I assume.

Out of curiousity(sp?;), isn't the spell checking process more of a serial type of deal? I guess I just don't understand what you mean by random access, or why it is cool for spell checking.

What is the power of this random access I hear of?
/me guesses it's more programattic then process-attic.

With Spellerpages, you can only replace the words in the order that they appear on the page.

Let's say there are 3 words misspelled. You have to decided whether to replace the first, then the second, then the third.

With the spell checker from htmlarea, the misspelled words are underlined. you can randomly click on any misspelled word and replace it.

The htmlarea spell checker UI with its random access to misspelled words feels more natural.

You can do spell checking with Java using the Jazzy project on SourceForge.

This would eliminate the need for Aspell, and CGI for Java developers.

I was able to get speller to work on our site, for general textarea. I think it would work great for this editor. I would like to see it check 1 word at a time though. What would be nice is for it to work like jazzy (a java spell checker).

We would need a few functions:
Find function.
Replace/Rereplace function.

And of course we would need some kind of interface for the spellchecker.

I noticed that some of the commented out buttons included a find, and a replace does this mean those functions are in the works?

Also we would have to be able to parse out the html tags, though this shouldn't be much of a problem.

I guess I rambled on long enough.
What do you all think?

Jason