[Building Sakai] CKEditor & Spelling correction.

Gregory Guthrie guthrie at mum.edu
Thu Mar 14 05:15:06 PDT 2013


Can CKEditor be configured (or "adjusted..."?!) to just punt on this, and let the browser do it?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Bush [mailto:john.bush at rsmart.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4:02 PM
> 
> 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?
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > - 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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