[dokuwiki] Reviving the spell check plugin
- From: Michiel Kamermans <pomax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:54:51 -0800
Hi Andreas,
how much work would it be to revive the spellcheck plugin as a dokuwiki
feature that highlights misspelled word on the actual web page, rather
than in the editbox, with suggested corrections (either via css tooltip,
or via javascript)? While most modern browsers have spellchecking in
their edit boxes, none of them have spell checked for web pages (and why
would they, of course. for normal sites, you cannot edit the page). This
feature is, however, highly useful if you have editorial capabilities.
Firefox has a plugin that sort of allows this ("Spell Checker" addon),
but it's pretty poor, and only highlights wrong words without any
suggestion for correction, nor any way to editing of the dictionary
file, etc.
I don't know if other people want to be able to have dokuwiki show them
erroneous spelling on their pages as the world sees them, but for people
who use it for collaborative document creation, this feature would be
quite useful: a centralised dictionary file specific to the dokuwiki
means you're not polluting general purpose dictionaries with all sorts
of jargon, and everyone working on the project can immediately spot
mistakes on pages where the original author(s) didn't have time (yet) to
thoroughly correct everything. Being able to spot mistakes so that you
can go into edit mode would be a great editorial benefit, making the job
much easier than having to open each page just to see if there are any
misspellings flagged in the edit box.
Regards,
- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
nihongoresources.com
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