FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: bug in spellchecker

[Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:03:33 +0200
"Christopher Mc Carthy" <christopher.mccarthy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Anyway my issue - I've already experienced a page 'wipe out' (start
> spell checker, no response, try to get control of the page (such as by
> clicking the spell checker button, then save etc from what I remember
> -- results in page being wiped, had to go to archived version to
> recover it).

Hmm... some way to interrupt the spell checking would be nice I guess. 
Shouldn't be too hard. Please file a feature request.

> I've also had occasions where the spellchecker was not
> very responsive (the page was not particularly long, but there was a
> fair amount of DokuWiki mark-up) and where I've had to do a
> CTRL+C/close the command line box that appears (this is a worry for
> colleagues that launch the spell checker from their machines --
> currently I host ).

I guess we can't do anything about the time aspell needs to check the text.

BTW. I read in a blog about the new firefox google toolbar:

The spell check feature (spellcheck.js) is interesting as well. When you click 
the "Check" button, the toolbar packages any content in form fields up in XML 
and POSTs it to http://www.google.com/tbproxy/spell. It get backs a simple XML 
document providing the offset, length and confidence for each spelling error 
along with a list of suggested alternatives.

http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2005/07/08/toolbar

I guess this could be easily used as alternative spell checking backend, but 
I'm not sure if this is okay by google's TOS.