[dev] Google Summer of Code - Calendar Improvements - Spellcheck Idea

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Mon Jun 6 01:08:39 PDT 2005


Zitat von Marko Djukic <mdjukic at horde.org>:

> Quoting Scott Nance <sconan at gmail.com>:
>
>> Are there any facilities included in Kronolith (or elsewhere in
>> Horde) for "on-the-fly" spellchecking? I know that 9 out of 10 times
>> I misspell something when I'm typing at a fairly quick pace. If there
>> isn't I bet a Javascript client-side spellchecking tool would be
>> useful for a majority of people. Perhaps something that focuses
>> attention on the spelling error via an underline or actual highlight?
>> Users could then mouse over the word and have a list of potentially
>> correct spellings popup.
>
> IMP has a spell checker, but not on-the-fly as you describe it. That would be
> very useful, especially if it has a way to be loaded into any Horde 
> module that
> wants to use it in a text input.
> Maybe it could be an extension to Horde_Forms, like a helper JS functionality
> similar to the calendar popup, so that it can be attached to text fields?

We still need a central Horde spell check library, and as mentioned on 
IRC already, I consider this even worth a separate SOC project. 
Integrating such a library into Horde_Forms could be a part of such a 
project.

Jan.

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