The best approach to this problem isn't to embed yet another spelling
checker into Mozilla. Rather, it's to incorporate an interface to
third-party utilities to provide this and similar services.
See bug 58615 ([http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58615]) and
bug 67208 ([http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67208]).
Such an IAC architecture already exists for Mac OS and Be OS
([http://www.wordservices.org/]). Check it out; look at the number and
variety of products available for this. Spelling checkers, grammar
checkers, and translators.
Does anyone know of anything similar for Windows or Unix?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Ruppel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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
>
