Spell Check

[theoryshaw]

This is probably a taller order than one would initially perceive, but just wondering if Etherpad-Lite could tap into or utilize the browser's native spell check functionality.

[Pita]

I remember that I tried to enable that and failed. I think the problem was that the editor replaced the text in the dom all the time

[theoryshaw]

Thanks Pita. Would this be a tough work around? I just know a lot of people have been asking for it via our SketchSpace instance over at http://www.openingdesign.com/ Granted, it's based on the other Rhino-based Etherpad code, but thought the front-end accommodation, would be similar. Cheers, Ryan

[Pita]

It's probably possible but this is not high priority for me at the moment

[JohnMcLear]

See: http://spellchecker.jquery.badsyntax.co.uk/ as a good plugin for handlign this and passing queries off to Google to handle

[mcnair]

i would love it if the browser checked my spelling as i typed in etherpad. i'm worthless without spell check, truth be told.

[cweider]

I think we’d be best served by adjusting things in such a way that the user agent’s implementation can work. @Pita, it’s disabled with spellcheck=false on the editable iframe, do you have any info on the problems that it caused?

[Pita]

@cweider I tried to enable this in the past. The problem is that browsers only do spellcheck on the part of the text the user has written. But the Etherpad editor replaces the elements of the text all the time, so the spellcheck isn't shown anymore

[jdoss]

I second the "I am worthless without spell check" comment. What about using something like aspell to process the text on the back end and not have it done in the browser?

[Pita]

@jdoss looks like aspell is a native programm. But there might be a javascript equivalent to that

[jdoss]

@Pita Yea, I fuzzed out and forgot that not everyone is running Linux. https://github.com/dscape/spell maybe? Anyways, amazing work. =)

[Pita]

@jdoss looks good. If you want to integrate it, go for it and make a pull request

[marcelklehr]

Feel free to implement this as a plugin (it's already on the wishlist) So this may be closed