[Building Sakai] CKEditor & Spelling correction.

[Kevin Takacs]

The browserContextMenuOnCtrl property is set to true out of the box, so
users can press ctrl (command on Mac) + right-click on the misspelled word
to bring up the browser spell checker.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

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


-- 
Kevin Takacs
*r**Smart* | Sakai Software Engineer
ktakacs at rsmart.com
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