Other than a possible performance issue on your server, I see no problem with runnng a server-side spell-checker.
I guess the question is how many people do you expect to concurrently post at any one time, and how much processing power is your spell-check going to swallow? There must come a point where the pain is much greater than any gain, and i would suggest that that is the point you reconsider the server-side spell check.
This advice of course could also be applied when looking at the overall performance of your server against anticipated demand for your wiki.
David
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Myria Sent: 20 July 2005 14:38 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: BETA Spellchecker
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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