[Using Sakai] FCKEditor Spell Check

[Matthew Jones]

Right, there is a client side library (speller pages) that works with FCK,
but requires some server setup, and the extension only exists in php/perl
currently. [1] There's no convenient version of this written as a servlet
that links up with aspell that I know about, and we haven't had a strong
demand to install it at UoM. It shouldn't be much work to setup though and
change the fck config, especially if you have a server setup that already
uses apache or iis in front of tomcat with mod_jk/ajp.

We are also planning on adding a tab to user preferences to configure editor
preferences. One of the options will be allow the user to choose that the
right click button work like they expect when the nearly any browser detects
a misspelled word (and adds a red line under it). Using the browser spell
checker is usually the most convenient, but most users don't know they can
get to this menu it with command+right click (or control+right on windows).
There's an fck option to change the default but then users won't know how to
get the editor context menu up. :(

Also, we are continuing to work on the possibility of upgrading the editor
to CKEditor (hopefully for a 2.7.x release) (SAK-17880). This will give us
the option of using the very nice library "After the Deadline" [2] which has
spelling, grammar and style checking, but only exists as a plugin for CK and
Tiny, as FCK is depreciated.

[1]
http://docs.cksource.com/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Configuration/Spell_Checker#Spell_Checker_Configuration
[2] http://afterthedeadline.com/
<http://docs.cksource.com/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Configuration/Spell_Checker#Spell_Checker_Configuration>

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Speelmon, Lance Day <lance at indiana.edu>wrote:

> It has been a while since I looked at this, but I believe the spell checker
> can be hosted on a server so that installing iespell on the client is
> unnecessary.  L
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> *Lance Speelmon*
> Scholarly Technologist
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> On May 3, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Beauchemin, Russell wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> Does anyone know if they are going to be releasing a spell check for the
> FCKeditor in a later version of Sakai that does not require the installation
> of a third-party app like iespell?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russell Beauchemin
> Instructional Design Specialist
> Roger Williams University
> One Old Ferry Rd.
> Bristol, RI 02809
> Email. rbeauchemin at rwu.edu
> Tel. 401.418.0098
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