Just a thought, why not for the Mac version of Chrome/Chromium, use the built in Mac OS X spell check services?
Daniel A. White On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > I'll let Sid chime in on the details of the implementation, but it's > definitely been designed to allow for other algorithms. If there's a better > way to integrate it into Hunspell itself, that might be worth looking into. > > -Nick > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> We want to start out with a very conservative approach so as to not be >>> annoying. We considered using the hunspell suggestions, but we wanted >>> something that captured one particular, common type of misspelling. However, >>> I believe Sid has built it in a way that lets us test other algorithms, >>> including using hunspell's algorithm. >>> >> >> That's still pretty easy to do with this -- you make your "distance >> oracle" return 1 for two words that differ by a letter swap, and infinity >> for every other case. You get the same results but it becomes trivial to >> add anything else you want later. >> >> If you're saying you can accomplish the points I was shooting for by >> tweaking the existing mechanism, you are right; I am simply suggesting that >> this route will be cleaner, saner and more future-proof in the end. >> >> PK >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
