We now have inline-spellchecking on WordPress.com, and it will be in core for WordPress 2.1. It works a lot like Gmail, certainly one of the best I’ve seen in any web editor. Automattic sponsored the good folks at Moxiecode to develop this feature. All GPL, natch. ¶
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brendan | March 26th, 2006 @ 5:16 am |
That’s great Matt, but does it work in the non WYSIWYG editor? It’s describe as a new feature of the java based editor.
Andrew K. | March 26th, 2006 @ 6:15 am |
Brendan: I believe you mean JavaScript, not Java. Entirely different beasts (thank goodness!) Also, the feature is part of TinyMCE, so if you have it dissabled, you won’t be able to use the feature. (TinyMCE being the WYSIWYG component in WP)
Jesse | March 26th, 2006 @ 9:27 am |
Excellent. A lot of the good plugins don’t work in 2.0
Dan Bowling | March 26th, 2006 @ 9:33 am |
This is great to see, but what about us “hard core” people who still like to roll their own? In the windows environment, Aspellfox doesn’t work, and spellbound (both for mozilla browsers) isn’t compatible with the latest version of firefox. Does anyone know of a solution for the rest of us?
I already use the Ajax Spell Checker plugin, and it seems to destroy HTML that it doesn’t understand (like header 2 tags!!!)
markku | March 26th, 2006 @ 9:35 am |
Great work, this will make writing in WP even more easier.
Mike Purvis | March 26th, 2006 @ 11:42 am |
I’m a little concerned with how much stuff seems to be getting rolled into the core recently. Is this feature going to continue to be implemented as a plugin, or bolted on permanently?
Douglas Clifton | March 26th, 2006 @ 11:54 am |
Try the Spellbound Development Version.
Matt | March 26th, 2006 @ 11:56 am |
Spell check is going to be in the core, spell check and auto-save were intended features ever since the introduction of WYSIWYG.
Kevin M. | March 26th, 2006 @ 8:13 pm |
“Aspellfox doesn’t work, and spellbound (both for mozilla browsers) isn’t compatible with the latest version of firefox. Does anyone know of a solution for the rest of us?”
Spell Bound hack for Firefox 1.5.0.1 You can use spellbound with this nice little hack.
Joe | March 26th, 2006 @ 9:27 pm |
It uses a “pretty standard XML API” will there be any information on how to use it and access it ? Thanks…
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Jacques Marneweck | March 27th, 2006 @ 12:34 pm |
Any chances of relicensing it under a BSD license?
Amit Karmakar | March 27th, 2006 @ 7:55 pm |
That is cool, but will I be able to cutomise it to the aussie dictionary. It was good to meet you at SXSW Matt. Though only for a very brief moment.
Robert Accettura | March 27th, 2006 @ 10:31 pm |
I really hope this becomes available for non-WYSIWYG users. Some of us (*cough* me) like the feel of making your own code. Kind of like how people cook at home, despite fast food being available. Please oh please make it available for non-wysiwyg users.
Matt | March 27th, 2006 @ 11:27 pm |
Probably not going to happen for non-wysiwyg users. Smart enough to code, smart enough to spell.
Mark J | March 28th, 2006 @ 1:39 am |
This plugin works just fine for me in WordPress 2.0.2, for the non-wysiwyg editor. At least, I don’t remember editing it… but you never know… I’ve fallen asleep at my keyboard and woken up to PHP code on the screen.
Podz | March 28th, 2006 @ 3:53 am |
“Smart enough to code, smart enough to spell.”
Hmm…..you do know this question about the non-RTE and spell will be asked again and again and again… so why not sponsor a non-RTE version?
Matt | March 28th, 2006 @ 4:00 am |
No need to sponsor anything, there are already several plugins that do spell-check for non-RTE, and they work really well. RTE spell checking was much more of a challenge.
Roy Schestowitz | March 28th, 2006 @ 5:40 am |
The latest of Konqueror comes with inline-spellchecker ‘out of the box’; Firefox has plugins; I am not too sure about Opera because it contains nothing as such ‘out of the box’.
Copying to external editors is easy and generalisable, just as a last resort. In my case, +A (highlight all), +C, +E (for editor invocation), +V, +T+S (spellchecking), then +A (highlight all), +C, +V. It takes only a few seconds and works for *any* application.
Robert Accettura | March 28th, 2006 @ 9:48 am |
>Probably not going to happen for non-wysiwyg users. Smart enough to code, smart enough to spell.
Matt: How long have you been looking at source code before you made that statement?
5 seconds?
Is there a technical limitation causing non-wysiwyg support to be neglected? Or is it purely a timeline issue?
Tony | March 28th, 2006 @ 3:45 pm |
Just tried it out today on Wordpress.com. It works great. Does this work with any version of TinyMCE? I know there are several CMSs that use TinyMCE (or a version of it).
Roy Schestowitz | March 29th, 2006 @ 2:31 am |
Sorry Robert/Matt. It was my fault. I see it has been corrected.