[Building Sakai] FCKeditor / Firefox spell checking

[Jon Hays]

Thanks Noah.  This is very helpful!

Jon
Noah Botimer wrote:
> Jon and John,
>
> Our testing of the integrated Firefox spell checker was mildly quirky. 
> The squiggly underlining worked pretty well, but the different FF/FCK 
> context menus required a key-click combo to get to one or the other. 
> Also, the ABC button is flaky (only works once sometimes). I haven't 
> made a hard conclusion, but I'm looking for alternatives.
>
> We're looking into the "WSC" mode, which integrates with 
> spellchecker.net. It has a few subtleties still, so the short answer 
> is that I don't have a comprehensive solution in hand at present. I 
> have not looked into the aspell variety for some of the reasons 
> mentioned here.
>
> As far as applying config params and stylesheets to the editor, I 
> definitely have experience there. It works quite well but I haven't 
> made a stylesheet to match the basic Sakai styling. We have 
> concentrated on portfolio work [1], where we have some additional 
> flexibility for controlling the JS without making system-wide/macro 
> changes. The crux is getting a CustomConfig specified, where you get 
> to control most things. The docs for the params [2] are decent.
>
> With all of this, FCKeditor 2.6.x is generally more polished. We're 
> running it in a Sakai 2.5.x build now without hassle. See SAK-15994 
> for more info.
>
> [1] http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/VoBFAQ
> [2] http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Configuration/Configuration_Options
>
> Thanks,
> -Noah
>
> On May 7, 2009, at 11:41 PM, John Bush wrote:
>
>> we use aspell, I found a jsp version of the server side script which 
>> I modified so I could set the aspell.path via sakai.properties
>>
>> http://www.fckeditor.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7219 
>> <http://www.fckeditor.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7219>
>>
>> I think I attached the jsp in this 
>> ticket, http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-4069, you can 
>> find more info there. For us having to install aspell is a real pain, 
>> I just like to keep the install as simple as possible, I really don't 
>> like the idea of calling out to shell scripts, something about it 
>> just doesn't sit well with my constitution.   The next step is 
>> replace the dependency on aspell.  I found a google web service out 
>> there, hopefully at somepoint I'll get some time to convert this to 
>> use that.  
>>
>> John Bush
>> Development Manager
>> rSmart
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 6, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Jon Hays wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Noah,
>>>
>>> I was curious if you came to any conclusions about making a change 
>>> to enable Firefox Spellchecking.  I noticed that FirefoxSpellChecker 
>>> is still turned off in default 2.6.  Is this because you found 
>>> problems with turning it on?
>>>
>>> Also interested in any other work you have done locally to tweak the 
>>> default configuration - Re: configuring FCK so content looks like 
>>> other sakai pages.
>>>
>>> much thanks,
>>>
>>> Jon
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/attachments/20090512/a6e38a51/attachment.html