Has anyone taken a shot at writing an extension to use Google's Spell Check API? If not I might take a show at it. Be interested to here Brions thoughts on this.
Simple example on how to do SOAP calls to the Google API's: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/adam_gundry20050316.php3
-ben
On 7/20/05, Myria myria@wolfandturtle.net wrote:
Steven Hilton wrote:
On 7/19/05, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
With all due respect to the work you have done, I believe spell checking is the domain of the client.
On Safari (MacOS X) at least, client-side interactive spell checking works great with MediaWiki. Does it not in other browers/OSs?
SpellBound 0.7.3 Spellchecker for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite
There's also ieSpell v2.1.1 for Explorer (http://www.iespell.com/).
The problem, of course, is that exceedingly few Wiki users -- or, at least, users of my Wiki -- are going to be apt to have either product (despite the fact that I list them on my help page). I presume that server-side spell checking does not preclude one from using a client-side spell-checker, so I'm really at a loss as to why -- aside from the seemingly inevitable naysaying so common to this list -- a server-side spell checker is such a bad idea. But then I'm sure someone will be along shortly to explain why it is bad for the internet, violates the Wiki concept, or creates mopery and dopery on the spaceways.
Myria
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