[Mediawiki-l] Re: Spell-checker

[Rick DeNatale]

On 12/13/05, Jan Steinman <Jan at bytesmiths.com> wrote:

> I do see the value of a collaboratively maintained dictionary. But
> I'm spoiled by "as you tpye^H^H^Hype" automatic spelling correction,
> and the thought of going back to batch spelling correction makes me
> think about flint knives and stone axes.

Sounds like it's time to start applying AJAX to the problem.

Hey Jan, maybe there are a few old Smalltalkers who could reimpliment
all of this stuff in Ruby! <G>