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There is a spell checker in COMMENTS but I cant find a way to apply it to the default editor?

Interestingly enough, I have found that the simpler the editor the more it is used. I loved FCKer! But I was the only one.

Whats this one called?
I would like one I could EASILY configure to remove most of the options and has a spell checker. NO EMOTICONS! hehehe...

I use the plain HTML editor. Unfortunately, the emoticons are substituted later, when the entries are displayed.

I use the FireFox spellchecker. (But I'm a pritty gud speler, so I don't rilly need it.)

Here we are in a tech forum, this is not the real world!
Out there in DUMBASMUDLAND, they dont know what FF is or that they can spell check from a browser. 15% of them who have those light up surge protector moniter stands, think that IS the computer. Reality check!
My mother put the mouse on the floor and tried to work it like a sewing machine pedal.

I have also found the animus between Surfers and Bloggers. Wow!
Never the twain shall meet
Redesigning the website this month and putting in CCS and SSI and FLASH and JAVA and PHP, I realized that what I was doing was making the website act more like a blog, TO ME. And now I have to make the BLOG look more like a website TO THEM.

Where was I?

Oh yeah, the people who will be using the editor are newbees.

Hi!

Ah. Spll scheckin ist overated!

Just kidding. I would love to see a decent and easy spellcheck support. Sadly this requires a HUGE word database, usually some PHP extensions or some external Perl processes. Doing it in plain javascript is IMPOSSIBLE. So there's no real easy way to achieve it, because you might want to also have the option to customize the dictionary etc.

Maybe some of the TinyMCE, FCKEditor or other developers found a cool PHP or other webserver-tool to integrate spellcheckers into, did you try to research that?

Best regards,
Garvin

I've been hoping the proliferation of typed communications would force the general population to pay attention to their spelling.

Yeah, right.

Anyway, what Garvin said: spell checking is resource intensive, and it really can't be done on the client side.

There are some server-side spell checkers, but they don't work in real time. Check out http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net/ for an open-source example. Would it do what you want? Would you have the time to integrate it?

Of course, Wordpress has a spell checker -- http://m0n5t3r.info/work/wordpress-plug ... l-checker/ -- but it crashes IE6.

I really think this problem is most likely to be fixed by the users, individually, as each of them installs a spellchecker they like in their browser. Or, in the case of IE users, when MS installs a spellchecker for them.

Then how is there a spell checker in the COMMENTS area?
Is that from my computer or something?
Never occurred to me!

I recently switched from FRONTPAGE to DREAMWEAVER and the only thing I dont like is that DM doesnt have a as you go spellchecker like FP. Its the only thing I miss though!

Hi!

rj wrote:Then how is there a spell checker in the COMMENTS area?
Is that from my computer or something?
Never occurred to me!

If you have a spell checker in your comments area (which I don't have), then yes, it must come from your local browser!

I recently switched from FRONTPAGE to DREAMWEAVER and the only thing I dont like is that DM doesnt have a as you go spellchecker like FP. Its the only thing I miss though!

I thought Dreamweaver could do that, maybe it needs to be enableds seperatedly?

Best regards,
Garvin

I fiddled with Dreamweaver looking into that. I dont think it has a spellchecker that you see as you go. Only the f7 to go through it when finished it. Frontpage has it because I am sure it uses the OFFICE one.

I am getting the spellchecker here in this as I type.
So that is from Fire Fox I presume?

Hi!

Your spellchecker here could be caused by Firefox, any of its extensions...but it could also be caused by any local proxy tool your might be using, or any other windows component.

Where it definitely does NOT come from is from board.s9y.org or phpBB.

Best regards,
Garvin

I dont have anything special plugged into FF.
Perhaps it comes from OFFICE?

FireFox 2.x (I don't know since what version exactly) has an integrated spellchecker onboard. You can add more spellbooks via the addon screen. I added the german book i.e.

This spellchecking is used in any normal html form input like the comment textarea. As the WYSIWYG is no normal html form element, it is not used in here.

But you can change to TinyMCE. This editor has the option to use the FireFox spellchecking, too. And the TinyMCE plugin of Serendiptiy allows you to switch this option on. I use and like it very much!