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Ajax Spell Checks

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Zz85
on June 11, 2005
in Browsers, Interesting Stuff, Technology and WP-Plugins
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Now even though that having QuickTag toggled FCKeditor (ChenPress) allows wp-spellcheck to work, I have some recent findings on the net that make DHTML/XMLHttpRequest/AJAX spellcheck thats makes me excited.

At first, Purely dhtml spell check would be ispell (for IE) and those integration of spellcheck plugins for WYSIWYG Editors (MudBomb, HTMLArea, FCKeditor…), but now…

1. See this very cool DHTML spellcheck which check your spelling while u type (like word, something i wanted in the first few posts in my blog)

http://me.eae.net/archive/2005/05/27/dhtml-spell-checker/ and its demo

Its code is implemented via js and cgi perl and aspell. (shouldnt be a problem if you want to port it to php)

2. This implementation done using some ajax library (CPAINT or SAJAX) and php (and pspell [with aspell wrappers])
http://www.broken-notebook.com/spell_checker/index.php

Usage: click spell check to start the spelling check (like gmail’s)

3. Of this AJAX SpellChecker mention in 2, a wordpress plugin was then packaged by m0n5t3r (http://exotic4.nipne.ro/~iacobs/work/wordpress-plugins/ajax-spell-checker/)

4. A nice working implementation of a Ajax spell check that should not be forgotten is the Spell check included in Gmail.

5. I modified the ajax spellcheck mentioned in 3 and 2 and then packaged and place it here. Download it here. :)
Current features

  • Just copy, activate and you get your spell check activated for writing posts and comments

More info here.

Asides

  1. The nick m0n5t3r is a form of 1337(leet) jargon
  2. Using eAccelerator (improved of mmCache) and free/better alternative to Zend Accelerator does seems to speed up my php pages alot (each page is served ~1s compared to 4s) by caching compiled php.

Note: Click on Check Spelling to do the spell check.

Update on Another AJAX idea

Published
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Zz85
on May 28, 2005
in Bloggin, Browsers, Technology and WP-Plugins
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Another AJAX idea.

So I named it Live Sidebars. As in my later post. I started using SAJAX and after 2 days I gave it up (using it as a plugin), although I made some progress showing/hidding using ajax. Then I went on to do “Live ‘Posts’”using sack.

Now for some sites which have codings for expanding/contracting or showing/hidding items here are some.

http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/10/04/show-hide-sidebar-gadgets/
A show hide (sidebar) gadget. Works using cookies and server side programming.

http://cjbehm.dyndns.org/wingingit/collapseit/
CollapseIt WP plugin. Uses javascript with divs.

http://www.thisisennis.com/scripts.php
More Info tabs. Which was inspired by

http://www.lucky-33.com/
Look at the cool sliding “more infos”

So, already so many implementations out there using show/hide. But no ajax yet, does that means there’s no need for it?

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Yahoo

Published
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Zz85
on May 26, 2005
in Browsers and Technology
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Mail increased their storage for me!

The Sketches of My Complete Ajax Wordpress Blog

Published
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Zz85
on May 25, 2005
in Bloggin, Browsers, Hobbies and Technology
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WYSIWYG Editors

Published
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Zz85
on May 25, 2005
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I have tried out 2 WYSIWYG Editors Plugins for WP.

1 is based on HTMLArea, another TinyMCE. Both are not bug free, so what would be the best choice?

Idea?
Do it like the dreamweaer style split view, 1 textarea  to show the WYSIYG editor, another the html source.
I still like the quicktags thingy and maybe some winks and smiley.

I’m taking a look at the latest mce editor and fckeditor and maybe freetextarea (and their plugins) to see what could be the best scenario.

As usual, some other wp user would have more experience that i do. FCKEditor as WYSIWYG Editor for Wordpress