[Building Sakai] CKEditor & Spelling correction.

[John Bush]

Yeah honestly, I don't know why any of this is necessary anymore,
browsers do a great job with it.  But we keep hearing it from
customers so...

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:
> Then I'm not sure this adds much over the "Speller Pages" option for CKEditor, or the fairly cheap current option from WebSpellChecker.net ($250/year). Our goal would be SCAYT which is what I think most users will be expecting (and prefer).
>
> I wasn't sure how to read the CKEditor page description of their "Native Spell Checker" (http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/guide/dev_spellcheck), but might that just defer spelling to the browser, which I think most do a good job on already?
>
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> - Kevin Takacs
> - rSmart | Sakai Software Engineer
> The google spell checker does a batch check of the entire document.
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:
>> This sounds good! One question is if this is automatic SCAYT - (spell check as you type) which I think is pretty much the current standard, or an explicit manual batch check of a document when done?
>
> I like the Moodle description: "should be familiar to anyone who uses a word processor".
>
> From: John Bush [mailto:john.bush at rsmart.com]
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] CKEditor & Spelling correction.
>
> The google one doesn't require a third party install or any costs.
>



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