Okay, a lot of people want a spellchecker that works with Moz. I am not
what you would call a programmer, but I can do VB and fortran :) and
think I have a grasp on the general concepts involved. Let's see if I
can get this straight: (or if I am talking out my butt)
1) the netscape spellchecker seemed to work like a simple plugin with
older versions of mozilla. The foundations of the interface between the
program and the spellchecker should still be there, possibly turned off.
Unless all relevant code has been yanked, we should first find out
what kind of interface (API?) is expected. That way one could write a
module that would work like the old spellchecker communications-wise and
use the work that has already been done on the mozilla end.
Anyone know about this? Was all spellchecker code yanked to prevent use
of the NS6 spellchecker? Was the protocol changed? Is it documented?
2) If a community based spellchecker project were to be started, A)
should it be included on www.mozdev.org? and B) could it eventually be
checked in as a part of mozilla builds?
Thanks,
Ben
