[FX.php List] Teachers need spell checker

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Thanks Steve!

This school district happens to work on the Mac side, so it would be 
Safari.  Asking them to use FireFox wouldn't be un-reseaonable it 
they want the benefit of spell-checking.


I will check out your recommendations.

Thanks

J

At 7:45 AM +0100 9/27/07, Steve Winter wrote:
>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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