[FX.php List] Teachers need spell checker

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Thanks, Leo,

I checked out the native Safari spell checker.  It seems to work OK, 
although it is a little hard to understand how and when the browser 
decides to check the text.

Problem is that different users would have different experiences with 
different browsers.  Might be a fact of life.

J

At 11:27 AM +0200 9/27/07, Leo R. Lundgren wrote:
>I just now tested DbNetSpell and it looked quite nice. But, it does 
>not work with Safari.
>
>I e-mailed the developers, and their direct response is that they 
>only support Firefox or Internet Explorer, and that there are no 
>plans to support Safari as "the development overhead is not 
>justified by the demand". So I guess those of us that need to 
>support the major browsers are out of luck, unless someone patches 
>it to work with Safari.
>
>// Leo
>
>
>27 sep 2007 kl. 08.45 skrev Steve Winter:
>
>>Jonathan,
>>
>>Probably the 'tightest' way of doing this is to install/utilise a spell
>>checker in the users browser.
>>
>>And the simplest way to do that is to encourage everybody to ditch idiot
>>explorer (opps, I mean Internet Explorer) and  install FireFox since current
>>versions of FF come with a very powerful, built in spell checker, which
>>automatically spell checks anything you enter into a form, allows you to
>>select language, add to a custom dictionary etc etc....
>>
>>If they 'insist' on using IE, then take a look at the option of exploring
>>IEspell, see http://www.iespell.com/ which basically does the same, as
>>FireFox, but must be installed as an app on each users machine...
>>
>>The other option which I've looked at in the past, but never implemented
>>fully is DbNetSpell http://www.dbnetspell.com/dbnetspell/default.aspx which
>>based on the demos, and the little that I've done with it looks to be an
>>excellent product...
>>
>>Cheers
>>Steve
>>
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>>
>>Remember the request to do school progress reports that would use FPDF?
>>
>>Turns out the teachers want a spell checker in the system.  Wouldn't
>>look good to send mistakes home to mom and dad. ;-)
>>
>>Any favorites out there? Perhaps this is a job for javascript.  Not
>>sure if it for AJAX, although I don't have time to learn it for this
>>project.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>J
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