While interfacing with a third party utility has its merits, isn't it
dangerous to depend on outside sources, which can change regularly?
What if they upgrade to a new, incompatible version or go out of
business? I think an embedded, barebones spellchecker wouldn't be too
much of a burden.
Canasta wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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