Re: Getting Started With Spellchecker

[Gervase Markham]

Ian Pilcher wrote:

> Gervase Markham wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think you'd probably find mozilla.org taking a dim view of checking 
>>features into the tree that worked only on one platform.
>>
>>
> 
> It occurs to me that it may be more trouble than it's worth to try to
> create a spell checker that works on both Windows and Unix. 


Windows and Unix are not the only platforms. If the new spell-checker 
was ispell/aspell based, it would almost certainly mean porting the 
engine of those products to all three major platforms, at a very 
minimum. Hopefully, we could base it on Mozilla tech in such a way that 
it was totally XP - there's nothing particularly platform-specific about 
a spellchecker.

Note also that not everyone who has Windows has Word. I certainly don't.

Gerv