[Building Sakai] CKEditor & Spelling correction.

[Kevin Takacs]

A while back we modified the aspell plugin in the FCK editor to use
Google's spell check service.  While getting ready for 2.9 we found someone
ported the aspell plugin to the ckeditor on their forums, so we added the
Google spell check code to it.  I created the following jira and attached a
patch for trunk if anyone is interested in checking it out:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23344

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> I wanted to again give a virtual "vote" for a spelling correction system
> in the forum & content editor, currently CKEditor.
> [SAK-23280 add spelling correction options to content editor]
>
> Currently a user sees spelling errors as typing (from the browser I
> presume?), but the standard windows option of right-click
> suggestions/corrections does not work. This doesn't conform to general
> Windows or UI standards, and thus surprises those users, since that is a
> general norm.
>
> While it is true that CKE does support plugins for ad-supported
> spell-while you type, the non-ad version is $3500/year - pretty expensive
> for a basic feature like this. Perhaps big schools don't much mind or
> notice such costs, but for smaller users it is significant.
>
> I'd also note that our Moodle users, who of course were reluctant to
> convert, have a better editor with this feature for free in the community
> version - makes it harder to compete!  :-)
>
> If there are other good options, I'd love to learn of them.
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Kevin Takacs
*r**Smart* | Sakai Software Engineer
ktakacs at rsmart.com
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