Spell checking

Have a look:

http://aspell-net.sourceforge.net/

HTMLArea 3.0 adds spell checking capabilities using a PHP wrapper for Aspell (with a very nice, if not too pretty, UI).

It would be nice to have a similar feature in FCKEditor using .Net.

Sun, 09/26/2004 - 10:00

mcukstorm

Joined: 05/06/2005

Posts: 126

RE: Spell checking

What would be nice is if a common interface could be developed (along the same lines of the filemanager) using server side connectors via a common xml interface to facilitate many different kinds of spell checking engines under different server side technologies.

Sun, 09/26/2004 - 18:57

xenden

Joined: 08/04/2006

Posts: 321

RE: Spell checking

Well, I guess it depends on what kind of interface you're talking about. In my mind there is a big difference between having 'instant' spell checking or having a button that does it more old skool, ie one word at a time, sequentially.

Hey, actually, I just thought of a way to have either, using this nifty super-javascript stuff this whole thing is written in.

Still wondering about overhead with the constant scanning of entered text. What event would fire it? Every keystroke? Hrm. Guess we'd just have to have an option for doing it constantaly or when a toolbar is clicked. Only trouble is, the contextual suggestions. That is a different interface than just kludging a spellerpages type of UI. But it fits the scheme of FCKeditor better. WYSIWYG is KEWL. Once again, props to this project. And the many other SUPER KEWL projects here at SF. Freaking Sweet.